Urban Roof Gardens
Urban roof gardens showcased their fabulous designs in the courtyard behind the oxo tower.
Urban roof gardens. And we have all the skills necessary to realise these projects in house. We are a leading design practice creating unique and iconic roof gardens. Our projects range from private stylish city gardens to large commercial projects with formal or natural planting schemes. In fact rooftop gardens help reduce the heat island that urban areas experience.
Urban dwellers everywhere can enjoy fresh food flowers and keep flat roofs cooler too. A roof garden is a garden on the roof of a building. Tours last approximately one hour and are held as weather permits. At urban arts space with a guided tour of our current exhibition and then moves to the roof with lazarus building manager robert turrin for insights into the building s green initiatives and a tour of the garden.
Rooftop gardens can be an oasis in an otherwise built up urban setting. Besides the decorative benefit roof plantings may provide food temperature control hydrological benefits architectural enhancement habitats or corridors for wildlife recreational opportunities and in large scale it may even have ecological benefits. Tours start at 2 p m. Gardening on a rooftop has a number of benefits including privacy no deer and good sun but there are several things to consider about urban gardening before you start planting.
Rooftop farming is usually done using green roof hydroponics aeroponics or air dyn. The practice of cultivating food on the rooftop of buildings is sometimes referred to as rooftop farming.