Creative ideas to use the roof for a garden

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Rooftop gardening is good for the environment and smart way to increase outdoor living spaces. A green roof garden can incorporate into a pergola, arbor, terrace, garage roof, shed and children’s play structure. Container garden and deck landscaping is a recent trend for confined space landscaping like condominiums, town houses, loft living in the United States and many other countries. Rooftop living is an exploding trend in the urban setting and no longer for penthouse gardens.

What a lovely idea to use the roof for a garden. However, in your case, living in NYC, one has to be concerned about the weight of plants on an old roof. Your landlord might object. Plastic pots weigh less and don’t dry out as easily as clay pots or aren’t as heavy as ceramic pots.  Also, if you will be watering the plants, you have to be sure that the water will run off and not seep into the roof – down into someone else’s apartment.

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