Fytogreen supplies installs and maintains both commercial and residential projects and is the largest supplier to the roof garden industry in australia.
Roof garden systems australia.
We assists landscape architects garden designers and supplies components to landscape contractors for intensive roof gardens.
An introduction to green roofs sustainable gardening australia.
A rain garden is a system that collects water from paving hard surfaces roofs and puts it through a filtering mechanism that removes nutrients and pollutants.
This innovative infrastructure offers an excellent prospect for inner city gardening.
Green roofs present higher construction costs than conventional roofs with limited short term investment returns.
Roof garden construction can be done by three methods.
The last and third method is to make your whole roof or some selected part a vegetation ground like a regular garden.
Fytogreen are proud to have supplied over 550 000m2 of roof gardens and roof garden media components throughout australia.
Roof carrier systems rcs is conveniently located in camberwell near the corner of burke road and toorak road with easy access from city link and two exits from the monash freeway.
Improved environment plant species minimize greenhouse gas emissions pollutants are adsorbed onto growth media particles and plant.
The versidrain 25p from elmich australia is used to store and drain water under green roof systems and landscaped areas.
Like any garden green roofs can achieve multiple purposes.
The company also has a dedicated research division that continuously develops new greening systems to meet the changing demands of the industry.
Green roofs offer several benefits.
Improved property value planted roof areas increase the permeable to hard stand ratio on building sites and allow the creation of utilizable commercial and recreational roof gardens and terrace areas.
First method is to make a container garden on terrace second one is to make a lot of raised beds to grow plants either permanent made of concrete or wooden.
Rooftop gardens are also known to improve a building s insulation and according to urban ecology australia they will also stabilise a building s temperature as layers of moist soil and plants acts as a type of thermal sink.
Construction techniques are well understood and documented internationally with an increasing number of proprietary green roof systems available and australian experience is developing rapidly.