If you have ever wanted to do something truly unique with your landscaping, you should check out green walls and roofs. Green walls are basically vertical landscaping. They use a variety of plants that are well suited to this type of application and plug them into a framework that is fastened to the side of a building. The benefits include improved aesthetics as well as reduced utility bills as a result of sunlight being absorbed by the plants before it hits the building.
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Green roofs are basically like having a lawn on your roof. Besides absorbing the suns’ rays, a green roof insulates and prevents heating and cooling from escaping from the inside and absorbs and uses rainwater. A building we profiled, The California Academy of Arts and Sciences, is being built with an undulating green roof.
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