Re: Fw: Ode to the Catalogs

Sounds interesting.  Hmm......tires on the roof.  Lovely. Who's that
hillbilly designer that does that sort of thing?
Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> >
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>> -------------- Original message --------------
> >>>
> >>>> 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
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
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> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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