Green Roof Topsoil

Focus on keeping the elements lightweight but water retaining.

Green roof topsoil.

Creating your own green roof. They provide many benefits such as improving air quality providing a fabulous habitat for wildlife slowing water runoff and preventing gutters from overflowing. Experts in green roof soil more than a decade of experience. Many green roof professionals recommend adding mycorrhizae and lightweight drainage material such as pumice to native soils.

Green tree topsoil is a high fertility and organic rich topsoil perfect for landscaping and planting projects. We offer a range of topsoils green roof garden soils and soil improvers in bulk. Topsoil soil from the garden is not used for green roofs because it s usually too heavy and tends to become too compacted. Like topsoil it has a range of particle sizes but the larger ones although light weight cannot be crumbled or crushed.

Green roofs are becoming increasingly popular in urban areas to provide green space and aesthetic diversity to a built up landscape. Lightweight green roof substrate a proven growing media that is lightweight in texture and manufactured from an award winning bs3882 topsoil. Rooflite extensive the ideal growth medium for extensive green roof systems with hardy and drought tolerant vegetation. Use a mixture of organic and inorganic materials.

Lindum s green roof substrate provides good aeration and water holding properties and controlled fertility levels. With a full line of standard rooflite soil products including regional and project specific blends you can trust us to have the perfect soil for your project. Green tree topsoil is manufactured from natural by products of the recycling industry and packed full of the essential nutrients and structural components that result in a rich and organic topsoil. To really appreciate the differences between substrate and soil you need to handle them both.

All our products are created with our innovative proprietary product development process which is designed to ensure high quality soil that meets established industry. These photo s don t do justice to either product. This is the best of both worlds as the native soil now has the ability to drain more fully its one drawback and provides a symbiotic fungus which enables better root growth. Rooflite offers a full line of lightweight soil products meticulously engineered for a diverse range of green roof applications and designed to optimize green roof performance.

The pale colours suggest it is more mineral based.