LiveRoof® Updates

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Choose Sunshine Sedum to Cheer Up your Green Roof

Maybe one of the best recent introductions to the LiveRoof line of plants, Sunshine Sedum (Sedum album 'Chloroticum')is truly unique amongst Sedum album cultivars. This tiny, compact grower is named for its vibrant yellowish-green miniature beadlike leaves which maintain their green foliage color throughout the winter months. Sunshine Sedum grows along the ground in a mosslike fashion and reaches only 1/2 inch in mature height. In the summer months, it blooms sparsely with white, star-shaped flowers.

Absolutely beautiful all 12 months of the year, this low-growing evergreen is sure to please. We recommend combining Sunshine Sedum with spring blooming ornamental chives, such as Allium schoenoprasum var. sibiricum 'Pink Giant', and fall-blooming tall Sedums, such as Sedum telephium 'Munstead Dark Red' and Sedum sieboldii 'Nana'. For summer blooms, Sunshine Sedum will look spectacular with the florific Sedum spurium 'Salsa™' and the blue-leaved Sedum kamtschaticum 'Variegatum.'

Sedum album 'Chloroticum' is an evergreen selected for USDA Hardiness Zone 4. It is ideal for green roofs in direct sunlight or light shade. The flowers appear in June & July and attract butterflies.

Contact your local Licensed LiveRoof® Grower to incorporate Sunshine Sedum into your green roof plans.

SEDUM ALBUM 'CHLOROTICUM' - APRIL 1
CONSISTENT, CHEERFUL GREEN FOLIAGE

SEDUM ALBUM 'CHLOROTICUM' - JUNE 1

SEDUM ALBUM 'CHLOROTICUM' - JULY 15

SEDUM ALBUM 'CHLOROTICUM' - IN BLOOM
CROPPED SPARSELY WITH TINY WHITE, STAR-SHAPED FLOWERS

Friday, December 17, 2010

Check out the NEW 'Cherry Blush®' Sedum

Cherry Blush™ Sedum is named for its olive green, lustrous cherry-red edged foliage. Borne upon arching stems, the foliage of Cherry Blush® becomes more red-infused as the season progresses, and during summer is topped with dusky pink, star-shaped flowers.

Sedum spurium 'Cherry Blush®' ('Nonio') is a semi-evergreen selected for USDA Hardiness Zone 3. It is ideal for green roofs in direct sunlight or light shade. The flowers appear in June & July and attract butterflies.

Cherry Blush® Sedum is only available in the LiveRoof® Hybrid Green Roof System. Contact your local Licensed LiveRoof® Grower to incorporate Cherry Blush® into your green roof plans.

Sedum spurium 'Cherry Blush™' ('Nonio') - May 1

Sedum spurium 'Cherry Blush™' ('Nonio') - May 15

Sedum spurium 'Cherry Blush™' ('Nonio') - Budding

Sedum spurium 'Cherry Blush™' ('Nonio') - In Flower

Monday, November 29, 2010

One of the Top Reason's to Love Toronto: The City Hall's LiveRoof®

The LiveRoof® brand green roof system on Toronto City Hall's Nathan Phillips Square is a meadow of over 20 different plant mixes and a testament to the instant natural beauty only possible with the LiveRoof® hybrid green roof system.

Toronto Life has called it out as one of the TOP TEN Reasons to Love Toronto.

"The resulting 3,250-square-metre garden of wild grasses and native plants is open to the public from dawn ’til dusk. Bisected by crushed white granite paths and dotted with ipe wood benches, the roof has the meditative effect of a Zen garden...

"...this elevated idyll proves that progress and beauty can coexist."

View the full article: http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition-informer/2010/08/06/reason-to-love-toronto-because-city-hall-is-leading-by-example-for-once/

View more photos & project details at the LiveRoof® website: http://www.liveroof.com/showcase_view.php?show=223

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

New Photos of LiveRoof, LLC's recent Installations

Jewel Osco Store- Chicago, IL
This is the second Jewel Osco store in Chicago to be topped with a LiveRoof brand green roof!

Boone Clinton Elementary School

To view all of our completed installations please visit http://www.liveroof.com/showcase.php

Green Roofs make people happy!

Check out this article from the LA Times...

Green buildings may make employees feel better, a Michigan State study finds - latimes.com

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

LiveRoof® on Nathan Phillips Square named GreenRoofs.com Project of the Week

Greenroofs.com has featured Nathan Phillips Square, the LiveRoof® brand green roof on Toronto's City Hall, as their Project of the Week.

This project features over 22 different plant mixes and uses a combination of LiveRoof® Standard and Deep systems. It is the largest LiveRoof® brand green roof in Canada, and is publicly accessible.

Monday, May 3, 2010

LiveRoof® in Wisconsin

LiveRoof® on Educator's Credit Union
by Genesis Architecture
Winner: AIA Wisconsin Honor Award for Overall Design Excellence
Featured in JSOnline, http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/92330259.html

Slide show, http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/92197379.html?index=6