Re: Fw: Ode to the Catalogs

I dig.

But another roof garden is a very simple one that missionaries from ECHO install in many tropical places--used tires on the roof filled with soil and planted with vegetables.

On Wednesday, February 23, 2005, at 05:48 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:

Jim, there are roof gardens and there are roof gardens. What you
describe is more what people think of. Often it will be an actual garden
you can walk around in on a city rooftop. This little project we have is
different, just a way of showing something different to our visitors.
Frankly I think it's a bit much - who's gonna want to get up there on a
ladder and try to tend it while it takes a few years to fill in? I've
helped as a gofer at various times while guys were up there removing
shingles or cutting wood for braces or whatever else they did, but I
told them I have no insurance and I'm not going up there. The woman in
charge of the project has every illness under the sun and can't get
there until 2 or 3 in the afternoon and doesn't show when she's arranged
for help. Pretyt much has everyone exasperated over it. but I think one
way or another it will get done this year. and in its own way, it will,
too, look pretty neat.


--
Kitty
neIN, Zone5

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There's a chain of Italian restaurants--Carrabas--around here that's
building design includes a flat ledge just below the roof line. They
landscape the ledge with palms and other tropicals. Looks really neat.


On Wednesday, February 23, 2005, at 02:43 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:
The roof garden had great possibilities, but has turned into something
of a disaster, mainly because the person in charge of it has been not
easy to work with. It should have been completed last year, but the
only
part that actually got done was reinforcing the shed's roof supports.
The plan is for sedums and vines growing on one sloped side of the roof
of our tool shed. Sedums and other succulents were dug from elsewhere
and set aside to be used, but they've all probably died by now as they
languished in flats waiting to be used. Materials were purchased and
left idle. Hopefully this year it will be accomplished.


-- Kitty
neIN, Zone5

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In a message dated 2/22/05 10:45:57 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:

<< the Roof Garden, >>

This sounds fun. Please explain.
Ceres

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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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