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Title: Small Green Roofs: Low-Tech Options for Homeowners
By: Nigel Dunnett, Dusty Gedge, John Little published May 2011



Gardeners and homeowners will relish the scaled-down technical specifications, design ideas and implementation advice presented in this book. Until now, books on green roofs have been aimed at architects, public planners and other professionals but this book uses domestic case studies to inspire, inform and motivate.
 
 

Title: Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide
By: Edmund C. Snodgrass, Lucie L. Snodgrass of Green Roof Plants. Published Oct 2006


Written with extensive knowledge of green roof gardens and includes everything you would want to know about installing a green roof.

 
 

Title: Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls
By: Nigel Dunnett, Noel Kingsbury Published May 2004

Provides practical techniques required for constructing green roofs, explaining the weight -bearing considerations, materials, substrates, draining layers, modular systems, and plants including plant choice, which are suitable for extreme conditions encountered on roofs.