The Grass Roof

I've always liked a plant, especially the wild sort. Ever since I was a kid i've used our native flowers, and then finally in 1998 I started the Grass Roof Company. Since then we have introduced wild landscapes into schools, public space and onto roofs. Many of these ideas we trial in our own garden, here is a link to the work we do at home. We can use this love of plants as a tool to change places for people and for other wildlife. Greenspace is key in making places liveable and good. We are privileged to work in public space as the potential to change and improve our towns and cities is huge and so underplayed.

Green roofs really work but if you get more soil up there they work far better, we use a minimum of 150mm of substrate, always have. This means the roofs support a much wider mix of plants, absorb more water, support more bugs and more life. We now design roofs using different soils, different soil depths, wetland roofs, partly vegetated roofs and roofs full of bee and bug habitat.