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Specialising in extensive green roof systems, Blackdown Horticultural Consultants has been building green roofs in the UK since 1999.
The company occupies a unique position within the green roof industry since it combines horticultural expertise including a wide range of experience in product development, horticultural trials, landscape design, plant and environmental sciences, with understanding of construction processes.
Green roofs
Designed to be lightweight and low maintenance, Blackdown Horticultural Consultants planted roofs are naturalistic with the objective of establishing long term, self-sustaining, plant communities.
They can include many types of planting or designed to create habitat:
- Sedum planting
- Wildflower meadow
- Herbaceous perennials
- Locally provenanced plants
- Biodiverse or 'brown roof' systems
- Maritime systems
- Butterfly and Bee planting
Green roofs, correctly designed and fitted, greatly reduce the impact of a building on the environment at the same time making it a more pleasant place in which to live and work. Benefits include:
- Stormwater attenuation
- Increased biodiversity through habitat creation
- Reduced energy consumption
- Noise reduction
- Improved air quality
- Reduced heat in citiesExtension of the life of waterproofing
- Enhancement of photovoltaic performance
UK Production Base
All the plants used in its extensive green roof systems are grown at Blackdown Horticultural Consultants' production base in Somerset and have undergone rigorous trialling under UK conditions. In-house production ensures quality, availability and flexibility for the company's installations. Plants suitable for green roofs can be chosen from a wide and expanding range, or grown to order.
Expert installation teams
Blackdown's specialist personnel, horticulturalists trained in safe on-site working procedure, carry out all the plant system installations. The company's installation experience encompasses a wide range of roofing systems and standards are exemplary.
Greening packages include:
- Green roof supply and installation
- Design and consultancyProject management
- Plant installation services
- Hydroseeding
- Maintenance contracts
- Irrigation services
- Plant supply
- Ecological surveys
- Façade greening
- Ground applications
Blackdown Horticultural Consultants
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