Re: Fw: Ode to the Catalogs

Felder Rushing loves tire crowns as planters.
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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
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Southwest Florida
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Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
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