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

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

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...

in the magnificent gardens of the kings, but as a feature of the smallest town gardens of Paris. Riat, in his most authentic garden history, "L'Art des...

subhastate.—The moonflower is most popular as a garden plant, but it also does well trained along the roof of a low house or against a pillar. It is excellent...

castles. Many of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, karesansui. The tradition of...

& Hágsater, (1989). (was named after dr. Luer of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, author of the series of monographs about the Pleurothallidinae orchids...

A. Hendersonii, Bull). Tall and vigorous, free-flowering, excellent for roofs: glabrous: lvs. large, elliptic-ovate, thick and leathery, in 3's or 4's:...

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...

a glass roof was added. In early times it was thought best to have living-rooms above the greenhouse, that it might not freeze through the roof. Even as...

introduced into more northerly regions, and later it was cultivated in monastery gardens by monks. Today, centuries-old specimens may be found in Great Britain and...

in garden nomenclature. The Brazilian species, L. purpurata and L. crispa, are strikingly beautiful, easy of culture, and are long-lived in gardens. These...

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...