Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls - Hardcover

Nigel Dunnett; Noel Kingsbury

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088192640X ISBN 13: 9780881926408

Publisher: Timber Press, 2004

Synopsis

The authors outline the benefits of green roofs and walls, such as reduced maintenance and environmental improvements, as well as providing practical techniques to make planting on roofs and walls a reality.

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About the Author

About Nigel Dunnett Nigel Dunnett is a senior lecturer in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield where he has developed innovative research programmes into naturalistic and ecologically-informed planting for gardens and public landscapes. He writes regularly for leading horticultural magazines and journals and lectures widely throughout the U.K. He lives in Sheffield. About Noel Kingsbury Noël Kingsbury is a leading expert in contemporary naturalistic planting design. He contributes regularly to Hortus, Homes and Gardens, The English Garden, and the Royal Horticultural Society's magazine, The Garden. He occasionally writes pieces for other magazines and newspapers including Financial Times and Country Life. Noël lectures regularly in the United States at places such as the Seattle Flower Show, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Rochester Civic Garden Center. Noël is a well-known writer on plants and gardens. He has always been firmly in the vanguard of new developments, playing a major role in popularizing a more naturalistic and sustainable planting style. He wrote Designing with Plants with designer Piet Oudolf and is associated with the Landscape Department at the University of Sheffield as part of his active involvement in promoting quality planting in public spaces. A lover of wild spaces and wildflowers growing in their natural environment, Noël emphasizes growing gardens in a way that expresses this passion. He is especially fond of the way plants group naturally when left to their own devices. Noël loves discovering good examples of large-scale, natural-style gardens or plantings that clearly evoke nature. He is pleased to be part of the naturalistic planting movement and believes that "Gardening for myself and for a lot of people is an opportunity to be close to nature."

Edition details

• Publisher: Timber Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088192640X
• ISBN 13: 9780881926408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256