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      Your support helps us delight, inspire, and educate the public. Donations, membership, and proceeds from special events helps us to create beautiful horticultural displays and educational programming.
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      Help us maintain our gardens and plant collections by getting involved with the Arboretum.
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      The Scott Arboretum cultivates a variety of plants that create some of the region’s most intimate, authentic, and accessible horticultural experiences.

Planting a Green Roof

Posted January 16, 2009 08:38h in Garden Plants, Garden Practices, Sustainability Topics, Video by Becky Robert 1 Comment

Learn about the process and the plants used to plant Swarthmore College and Scott Arboretum’s third green roof.

Building a Green Roof: Part 4: Planting an Extensive Green Roof

Learn about the process of planting of an extensive green roof as well as the plants ideal for the conditions found on a roof. Click here for more details.

Building a Green Roof: Part 5: Planting a Semi-Intensive Green Roof.

Learn about the process of planting a semi-intensive green roof as well as the variety of plants that can grow there. Check out this post to learn more.

See past green roof videos here.

Becky Robert

rrobert1@swarthmore.edu

1Comment

John Manion
Posted at 08:50h, 16 January Reply

Excellent…sure makes me want to plant a green roof!
Keep up the good work.

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