Is rooftop gardening possible?

[alp]

Mine are on tables....should work for youView attachment 49658

That makes me giggle!

 

[zigs]

Re @Sean Regan 's video. A most famous one in London is in South Kensington. The rooftop garden must have a specialist treatment as it actually has a canal where you could enjoy wood ducks swimming around.

Kensington Roof Gardens - Google Search

www.google.com

A feast for the eyes. I used to work in South Kensington and never knew of its existence. Might go there for a very expensive cup of tea and snap some pics in the summer.

I went there for an award presentation

 

[alp]

I went there for an award presentation

Come on, zigs! Spill the beans please!

 

[zigs]

Come on, zigs! Spill the beans please!

Got a green apple award for the work we did on The Conduit in Sherborne

Can't find a thing about it on the web though

The Conduit - Sherborne | The Dorset Guide

The Conduit at the bottom of Sherborne's South Street The hexagonal 16th-century structure originally stood in the north cloisters of the abbey, where it was used for washing by the monks. It was moved to this site after Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539

www.dorsets.co.uk

 

[roadrunner]

one would think the "right" roof first is top importance. whatever that is.

Yes that is important and if you listen to a lot of the videos about roof top gardening, many roofs must first be reinforced. I know that I would have to do that for my house, just for the weight issue, forget the issue of trapped moisture.

I'm not anti-rooftop gardening, I just have questions about how it would work over time, but the problem is that the vast majority of videos out there are so pie-in-the-sky and only just quickly skim over some of the challenges, if they even mention those issues.

I've known about this type of gardening for a while now, but I'm really curious how some of the older ones are doing now and how much money, time and effort has gone into keeping them up.

Here's one of the only videos (albeit very short) that speaks to some of the challenges.