Roof garden is a hot new hobby

The roof garden is an example of how people find use of their hobby even within the city. The cultivation of wildflowers and garden flowers on the roofs of skyscrapers requires certain skills and observation.

A rooftop garden is a rooftop patch of lawn and flowers. Here it is important to know about the characteristics of plants that are not prone to changes in temperature and humidity. After all, this is so typical for the roofs of skyscrapers.

First, you need to prepare the roof surface - to carry out waterproofing by means of special coatings and impregnations. It is better to use special resin-containing compounds, since they are as close to the ground as possible.

Then, drainage, sand, clay and soil are applied to the surface already impregnated with a waterproofing layer. In order for the plants to take root as quickly as possible, the soil layer should be infused. This takes about a few days.

Then the planting of lawn grass and flower beds begins. It is advisable to do this gradually, observing how certain types of plants take root.

It is better to select plants in advance. You need to understand which species can coexist with each other. And planting, what flowers together is simply impossible.

You can learn about the intricacies of plant growing from the corresponding books in the section Literature on the OXO website. How to plant, how to fertilize and care, how to transplant plants - all this information is present in the books.