View Roof Garden Design Pictures. Stylish rooftop gardens and how to make them. The thing to remember is that every square centimetre counts.
Living roofs covers the best of traditional and contemporary 'green' roofs and roof gardens.
Rooftop gardens and green roofs are the new backyards, as shown in the book living roofs (teneues, $55). If you live in a building without its own garden, establishing a roof or balcony garden is the ideal way to create your use the services of a chartered structural engineer or a surveyor. Besides the decorative benefit, roof plantings may provide food, temperature control, hydrological benefits, architectural enhancement, habitats or corridors for wildlife, recreational opportunities, and in large scale it may even have ecological benefits. Every garden designer knows that terraces can be tricky.
