This week is off to a great start! This morning I had a private tour of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) Living Roof. I walked the entire 2.5 acre roof and learned about the roof’s natural systems, the many micro-climates on the roof, the unique challenges the landscape and maintenance crew face, the various plant species, the roof’s soil, the irrigation system, the design process, and what has worked and what hasn’t. It is a wealth of information that I will take to future projects. I wasn’t able to take many pictures but check out the link below from the CAS web site. It is a very interesting read with a good video (I’ll let you know that the Sea Thrift and Stoncrop have not thrived and there are very little of those plants existing, there are however many more species then those originally planted growing on the roof today). The CAS living roof is an incredible garden and a natural work of art!!!
http://www.calacademy.org/academy/building/the_living_roof/
