It’s summer and if you like to enjoy the outdoors, it’s nice to have a patio, garden or roof garden. The choices are several and very interesting and regardless of which one you prefer, some principle are the same and it might interest you the fact that beside of contributing color, aroma and aesthetic to the garden landscape, you can create one that is environmentally sustainable and that conserves water and resources.
To chose and decide what style would best work for your situation you can work with a professional landscape designer or start some investigation on your own. Some green environmental landscape entities made partially easier for us, for example the well know roof top of the California Academy Museum studied several species of plants before deciding which ones would best work for their project to plant on the roof, and you can find the list on their website. Other organizations such as plants.usda.gov, iscc.ca.gov and stopwaste.org have very good categorizations and several detailed resources. So you can create a garden with seasonal landscape with different aromas and colors, with plants that survive with minimal water and care, with native California plants species and by hydrozoning-grouping them by water needs you save water, conserve resources and have a more efficient outdoor ambiance. I like that, when you can achieve aesthetic, function and best environment practices all in one.
Below is the image of the famous roofgarden of the California Academy Museum in San Francisco.
Posted by Alberto Isoni
