Green-tree Roof Substrate Intensive

The Green-tree Intensive Roof Garden Substrate is an established green roof soil and growing media within the Green-tree family of products. A blend of lightweight aggregate and the award winning Green-tree topsoil, the intensive roof garden growing media is ideal for green roof construction projects and particularly containerised planting. Lightweight in texture with good water-holding capacity, Green-tree Intensive Roof Garden Substrate promotes healthy plants and trees in a roof garden environment.

Green roofs have grown in popularity over the last ten years, due to improvements in system availability, greater knowledge of green roof requirements and successful green roof installations across the UK. They are now recognised as one of the most efficient methods of ‘urbangreening’ amongst commercial developments within towns and cities and even the more adventurous amongst us are converting our outbuildings and garages to green roofs. Green roofs offer developers an excellent solution for assisting in the management of storm water and reducing the ecological impact of a project. Green roofs have many benefits including their positive impact on biodiversity providing much needed habitats for birds and insects. All Green-tree Roof Garden Substrates are manufactured to current FLL (Forschungsgesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftbau’s) Guidelines 2008 ensuring consideration is given to fire regulations set out by FLL.

Benefits of Intensive Roof Garden Soil Substrate:

• Good levels of fertility
• Good water holding properties
• Excellent aeration properties
• Lightweight compared to standard soils
• A typical pH of 8.4
• Typical bulk density at saturation point 1.22 – 1.32 tonnes/m3

Intensive Roof Garden Soil Substrate Applications:

• Containerised planting
• Soft landscaping
• Tree planting
• Decorative planting
• Allotment planting