Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls

Revised and updated edition

Nigel Dunnett and Noёl Kingsbury

Nigel Dunnett and Noёl Kingsbury reveal the very latest techniques, materials, and plants, and showcase some spectacular new case studies. The authors describe and illustrate the practical techniques required to design, implement and maintain a green roof or wall to the highest professional standards.

ISBN- 13: 978-0-88192-911-9

Rain Gardens

Managing water sustainably in the garden and designed landscape

Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden

Water brings our gardens and landscape to life, but this once cheap and freely available resource is now becoming problematic with prolonged drought at one end of the spectrum and catastrophic flooding at the other. This groundbreaking book describes how to make the most of rainwater by capturing, channelling and diverting it as it falls on our buildings, roads, paths, gardens and wider environment.

ISBN- 13:978-0-88192-826-6

The Green Roof Pocket Guide

Published by The Green Roof Centre this is a handy guide to the basics of green roofs. The Guide covers many of the common issues, from a fundamental description of different types of green roof to component makeup and planting options.

The Developers Guide to Green Roofs

This report aims to demonstrate the economic advantages of integrating Green Roofs into a development and will relate existing data to a UK setting. The recognised methodologies of Net Present Value and Discount Rate are used to demonstrate both the short-term and long-term financial gains to be had from investment in Green Roof technology

GROW UP GREEN Teaching Resource.

The teachers resource is aimed at primary school teachers, for use with Key Stage 1 (4-7yrs) and 2 (7-11)yrs children. The pack has been produced with the help of practicing teachers and provides a series of fun stimulating activities to raise environmental awareness.

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