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zoological gardens. Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use plants sparsely or not at all. Food-producing gardens are distinguished...

Kensington Roof Gardens (formerly known as Derry and Toms Roof Gardens) is a roof garden covering 6,000 m² (1.5 acres) of the top of the Derry and Toms...

A roof garden is any garden on the roof of a building. Hotel roof terrace. An extreme example of a roof garden, in Vancouver.]] green roof living wall...

have incorporated food production into their urban fabric through roof gardens. Roof gardens allow for urban dwellers to maintain green spaces in the city...

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and vegetation. A concrete roof deck makes a green roof much more feasible, as opposed to a metal or wood roof deck. Green roofs also have more exacting standards...

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mature plants. These are often sold or transferred to ornamental gardens or market gardens. The origins of horticulture lie in the transition of human communities...

valued in gardens abroad. There are also some fine new species from China and Thibet that give promise and have flowered in Massachusetts gardens from roots...

The roof prevents rain from beating in, and keeps the cats out. From whatever direction the cat may attempt to reach the hole, the projecting roof stands...

non-residential green areas, such as parks, public or semi-public gardens (botanical gardens or zoological gardens), amusement and theme parks, along transportation corridors...

mosseries in many British and American gardens. The mossery is typically constructed out of slatted wood, with a flat roof, open to the north side (maintaining...

extensively grown as ornamental plants in home and botanical gardens. Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in New Jersey, for example, is a living iris museum with...

every precaution during that season to insure success. A lean-to or half-span roof structure of northern exposure, protected by a brick or stone wall on the...

warmest, such as the south side of a home, or in a sunny portion of the garden. Soil: The best soil for the pineapple is a friable, well-drained sandy...

advanced, that seedlings were raised in the Edinburgh, London and Chatsworth gardens, while the Veitch firm that now had collectors like Lobb busy in the native...

nearly all have pendulous flower-scapes, and should be suspended from the roof in baskets in a compost of equal parts chopped peat-fiber and live sphagnum...

Rain gardens are sometimes confused with bioswales. Bioswales slope, while rain gardens do not; however, a bioswale may end with a rain garden. Drainage...

The RISC Roof Garden, on top of a development education centre in Reading city centre and inspired by Robert Hart's permaculture forest garden in Shropshire...

should have a sheltered but sunny position. Manettias are very useful as roof-plants, or for growing on rafters and pillars. They may also be grown into...