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Sunday the 5th February 2012
Press Release for Moss Acres
Invitation to MOSS Green Roof Installation, New Hope, PA – Sunday, April 11, 2010
(Philadelphia) – Moss Acres announces the first full-scale, residential installation of a green roof using only moss as the vegetation. On Sunday, April 11, Moss Acres, with direction and installation help from Charlie Miller of Roofscapes, Inc., in Philadelphia, will install a residential green roof at the home of moss visionary and local moss guru, Dave Benner, in New Hope, PA. Benner’s roof will now complement his garden, which is covered only in moss and other shade-loving plants.
Many consider moss the “original” green roof plant for its tendency to grow on shingles in shady areas. This installation, however, will utilize and demonstrate the professional approach to building a green roof, including the use of a waterproofing membrane, a moisture-retention layer, growing medium, and moss as the vegetation. Moss is an especially desirable plant component and has many advantages for green roofs:
-Is lightweight
-Retains 10 times its weight in water
-Thrives in shade produced by building shadows
-Is drought tolerant once established
-Grows rapidly — 3 to 6 months for full coverage
Spring House Green Roof at Moss Acres location - Pre-ground Hypnum moss fragments knitting together and into engineered roofing aggregate just two months after “inoculation”.
And, since moss has no roots, constructing a green roof using moss also requires less growing medium.
Media is invited to the event. Please RSVP to Nancy Church at nancy@mossacres.com, or 484-580-9890, and include your name, address, title, and publication name.
Location: 6974 Upper York Road, New Hope, PA 18938
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm ET
Click here for Press Release – Moss Green Roof Installation
Green Wall Technology
How Do You Find Rooftop Gardens or Green Roofs?
When the plan was conceived to create an online rooftop garden database there was a flaw in the plan. To me it would be a no-brainer. Ask folks to stand up and be counted. Wrong.
I listed my garden, which I am very proud of. You know: ‘lead by example’.
I have emailed people.
I have asked people.
I have visited people.
I have searched Google.
I started a LinkedIn group called Rooftop Gardening Group. Nothing.
Then one day, like a slot machine ringing a winner, they found us! Here are some of the early adopters who have contributed to our website!
- Thanks to Marguerite Wells of Mother Plants, a roof garden plant supplier, who has listed some spectacular roof projects to date. The photography of their projects is absolutely outstanding as well. Again, thanks Marguerite!! We love your work. -If I were an architect I would list the various projects I have designed. Someone did just that.
-Thanks to GS Lee and KNTA Architects who have listed the Singapore Management University City Campus roof garden. We were so very proud when Geok-ser Lee reached out to us. He has become a great internet friend as well! Thanks Geok.
-If I were an organization looking to promote sustainability, I would surely want to showcase my project! Guess what, ASHRAE did! That was a wonderful milestone to our effort to educate. ASHRAE is a beacon of light and information for so many of us. It is so very good to know that this organization stepped up to the plate and is showcasing their green roof! Thanks to Mike Vaughn at ASHRAE for taking his time to post this garden. I would bet Mike is a great person to network with about his project as well! Thanks so much to Mike, for helping the cause.
-A huge thanks to Mack Barnhardt of Air Filtration Systems, Corp who was an outstanding expert in the field of ventilation and odors. Mack contributed his time and brilliance to an article titled, Rooftop Gardens: Smell the Roses Not the Odors!, and of course for linking his website to RooftopGarden.com. Mack has really become a great resource for our entire industry! If you have any building odor issue of any kind, call Mack!!
-David Plechner, Sales Manager at C.M. Jones Incorporated (landscape design, build and maintenance firm), has truly been one of my earliest green roof professional supporters in so many ways. David is a wealth of information on the infrastructure side of the business. There is probably no roof garden question he cannot answer or he will get you the answer. I call David “my go to roof guy”. If you want professional and practical insight, contact David! David was the kindest man to give me permission to post his excellent roof garden progress photos on our Projects page. The photos and the unfolding of the story in pictures, were spot on! I wish I could find more folks like David out there with great stories to tell in pictures. As Property and Facility Managers, we love pictures and drawings as we are very visual people and C.M. Jones got the job done. Thanks to C.M. Jones.
I am still trying to unlock the secret of how to really find rooftop gardens and their founders. I have not yet found the formula or the technique. No matter what, I still believe it is worthwhile to continue and forge ahead. There are many building owners, property managers, facility managers and tenants with valuable roof space that is simply under utilized. We want to lead them to the resource and expose them to the possibility. That is the purpose of examples.
If we can get the small everyday roof gardens, along with the public roof gardens and green walls listed on the database, I think it would show those who are hesitant to pursue it, that it can be done. We may do it one roof at a time, but we will do it and appreciate every single one of them.
Do you know of any roof gardens, landscape architects, plant suppliers or municipalities encouraging roof gardens? If so, please tell me about them or send those gardeners here to add their project to our database. Remember, it just takes one roof at a time to get the job done.
very cool, world’s largest green wall or is it a sign? in U.S.
A huge thank you to Jean-Claude Goldenstein for his efforts with the CRE portal CreoPoint. Jean-Claude is bringing the world of CRE together in one place. He has even brought our greening efforts together, which is so very necessary. Good news, like the world’s largest green wall is hard to come by and thanks to CreoPoint it is here for the PM / FM industry to embrace and understand.
The concept of green walls is as outstanding as its sibling, green roofs. It is simply a fascination for so many folks, but it is truly proving to be more than that. It is becoming a standard to achieve. A hallmark of excellence, if you will. The ingenious of this concept is that it is a sign, but it is a green sign. How can you argue with the beauty of a green sign? The sign industry better watch out because this will definitely catch on and bring life and green to the cold, hard-to-soften high-rise or skyscraper.
Kudos to Green Living Technologies and the PNC on this project. Now I just have to get them to list the project on the Rooftop Garden World database!!
~Linda
Urban Reforestation – New Term? or is it just me?
New term?
I feel like I try so hard to keep up on reading and researching everything possible about urban gardening and rooftop gardens and green roofs, green walls, and vertical gardens, etc. Today, I was sent a tweet by THKTNK aka http://www.arkit.com.au/. It was about a group called Urban Reforestation in Melbourne, Australia. That was a first for me. What about you? It is a group of folks trying to make a difference in Melbourne by bringing farming or what we call, greening, to their city.
This is their mission: Urban Reforestation is a creative global campaign aiming to inspire urban farming for sustainable lifestyles and food security. Starting in metropolitan Melbourne. From the photographs, it appears to be on a rooftop. So we have another great catch phrase to be aware of. I like it, but when I think of reforestation, I think of big trees, but it still works for me. I may be the clueless one, but I never heard of that term so I thought I would share it.
The group is too busy gardening to finish their website, but they do have one and I think it will be great. They also have a Facebook site as well. Here is how you can find them. We can thank my Twitter friend for the plug.
Facebook Group – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Reforestation/136023370285
Website – http://www.urbanreforestation.com
Thanks for reading,
~Linda
LDay@rooftopgarden.com
Let’s Build an FAQ – Rooftop Garden, Green Roof, Green Wall
It amazes me the number of questions I hear about the misunderstood subject of rooftop gardens, or green roofs, or green walls. People are intrigued as to how they really work. Those in the building industry are even stumped on this subject. Quite frankly it is truly misunderstood and that is the entire purpose of this website and blog.
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Think Green. Think Moss.
Although most of us do not think of moss when we think of traditional roof garden plants, maybe you should if you have the right conditions. Every day someone sends me an email or reaches out to me about their project and I learn something new.
Today my eyes were opened by Heidi Masucci, Operations Manager at Moss Acres. Moss Acres is experimenting with moss and rooftop applications. It is proving to be a worthwhile experiment so far. Of course, the use of moss is for mostly shady locations. The good news is for buildings that live in the shade of other buildings. Also, what I was surprised about was the fact that once established it is drought tolerant.
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Add Your Project to Rooftop Garden World Database
If you have a rooftop garden, living wall, green roof, or whatever living, planted surface or plane or you built it, designed it or installed the plants or grew the plants, you MUST be on this list. For ten years I have said that I will create a comprehensive list that includes all of the rooftop/green roof gardens in the world. If you love to photograph those gardens, what a great place to go to find out if there are any you may visit on your next vacation or business trip. Click this link to add your garden or wall: http://www.rooftopgarden.com/database
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