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Issue 49 - Summer 2009

PAGE CONTENTS Issue 49
3 Editorial -
How much do we know about green roofs?
4 Feature - Roof-greening -
Noel Kingsbury gives a general introduction.
8 Case study - Up on the Roof -
Colm Doyle, describes how a relatively simple design on an office roof benefited staff and management.
10 Report - A match for Chelsea -
Chelsea was, er, great, says Helen Rock, but a new show, Future Gardens, is what did it for her.
12 Case study - Future Nature -
The brief submitted to Chelsea for Nigel Dunnett's award wining garden.
14 Book reviews - Is there anything they don't do? -
Sheena Vernon reviews 'Planting green roofs and living walls' by Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury.
15 Book reviews -The Expert's Miscellany -
Sarah Hallahan reviews 'The Bedside Book of the Garden' by the inimitable Dr Hessayon.
16 Feature - Now you sedum, now you don't -
Rita Higgins looks beyond the greening of roofs with sedum blankets.
20 Show report - Bloom in the Park 2009 -
- Tycho Mays gives his verdict
- Gordon Ledbetter comments on the GLDA stand at Bloom
- Table of medal winners
24 News and Events -
Compiled by Annette McCoy

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