{"id":5906,"date":"2015-07-21T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2016-03-25T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T10:18:52","slug":"our-grass-roof-is-actually-flowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/our-grass-roof-is-actually-flowering\/","title":{"rendered":"Our grass roof is actually flowering!……"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long while since I blogged due to incredibly busy; but I thought I’d give an update on our grass rooves.<\/p>\n

As you may remember we built a garage with a sedum roof (below):<\/p>\n

\"Sunsetting

Sunsetting on grass roof<\/p><\/div>\n

And when we laid the sedum it was (as you can see green).<\/p>\n

A few moths later the roof started to turn red; we thought it was dying and all we could find from Google & the supplier was that the roof was in distress and that it needed a bit of rain and fertiliser. Now, the roof is in Mayo and we’ve had a good bit of rain recently. Nevertheless we did what was suggested and the roof remained red.<\/p>\n

A couple more weeks go but and I inspected the roof yesterday. The red bulbs (like a cactus) are beginning to open up and small flowers are appearing:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8657\"<\/p>\n

The roof is still very red (which we’re now OK with) and a close-up of a section shows how it’s flowering:<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8656\"<\/p>\n

So our roof isn’t dying! It’s flowering!<\/p>\n

More on the grass roof over the underground section of our house later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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