Over the last year or so, we’ve been creating a space where we can cook outdoors. Our outdoor kitchen has two working earth ovens, a fire pit and space to prepare food. We’ve recently built a roof to provide some shelter from the elements.
Today, we’ve been adding a living, green roof. The ‘carpets’ of alpine plants have taken a year to prepare: capillary mats have been planted up with a range of plants, cultivated here at Martineau Gardens by the Garden Volunteers team.
- Surveying the alpine plants grown here for our green roof
- Baskets of plants to be carried up the ladders
- Rolling out the ‘living carpets’
- Close-up, up on the roof
- Creating the best arrangement
- Weeding