We love our green roof here at The Secret Acre. Everyone should have one.
July is one of the best months with an outbreak of small white and yellow flowers, although this year’s display is less pronounced than last year, possibly due to the very dry spring compared with 2016’s deluge. Continue reading
The green sedum roof remains one of the highlights of our eco-makeover at The Secret Acre.
Visually striking, it is a daily joy to behold as it changes and evolves across the seasons.
In June and July a profusion of small white and yellow flowers have blossomed in the green, attracting a mass of bees and insects.
There was one thing we were clear about when planning The Secret Acre’s eco-makeover. We didn’t want to be looking out from our new bedroom over 60 square meters of grey roof extension.
And it turns out that installing a green roof is amazingly simple.
In fact most of the hard work had already been done by the farm in Wiltshire who grew our roof in self-contained modular trays that arrived stacked on a lorry. Continue reading
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