Good morning. What a beautiful day on the coast. Currently, my underground garage roof is covered with bark mulch (yuck). I would like to present the strata council with the option of grass. What do we need to be able to replace the mulch with grass? Thanks for your time.
Here I have seen fescues used. Other details depend on your particular situation, including what is permitted by the Council.
Drew, Several years ago a friend brought me a package of seed from someplace in Sidney, BC. It was labled " Fescue and Flowers". It grew beautifully. The fescue didn't get high and half to be mowed and the flowers, mainly popies as I remember, bloomed beaqutifully. Each year there were fewer flowers but the grass is still going. It gets mowed mabe once or twice a year. If it is not to be mowed you could natualize all sort of small flowers in it.
Over here where I live in Sweden I see living roofs all the time. However they do not use grass as I believe the maintenance would make it impossible. What they do use are a low growing variety of various succulants, mosses and lichens on the rooftops. Of course the mosses and lichens may just naturally associate themselves since their spores are likely floating around everywhere. In fact right now in early spring, almost every lawn is a moss lawn. Graases are still a bit dormant or just slowly starting to wake up and the mosses thrive diring this time. The texture is like a big fluffy giant sponge at the moment. But it will gradually change to a complete grass situation by late spring into summer. As far as lining I'll have to ask around.
Grass taking over meadow plantings is a usual outcome in this climate unless the soil is suitable for flowers to persist. Usually this means it being "poor" in some way, such as coarse-textured, droughty or thin. In nature here the most frequent analog to a turf roof is a bald on a bedrock outcropping, such as are seen around Victoria. In such places the soil may be very shallow, and apt to turn to dust in summer.
Thanks everyone for your input. The council has decided (right or wrong) that the upkeep and maintenance on a lawn would be too expensive.
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