Tour the PECO Green Roof!
 Touring: Information on touring the PECO Green Roof can be found here.
About the Green Roof: Totaling
over 45,000 square feet, it is the largest green roof on an existing building in Philadelphia. Says Denis O’Brien, the company's president and CEO, “As a major business in the region, being environmentally responsible is not just a nice thing to do—it’s the right thing to do.” In its first season, more than 500 people toured the roof.
Video: See a special video about the PECO green roof here.
Plant List: The planting design for the PECO roof contrasts the low-growing non-native succulents over the extensive area with native perennials and ornamental grasses in the planting beds surrounding the viewing deck. The sedums have achieved tremendous coverage in the growing season and performed very well.
Extensive areas:
Sedum album ‘Coral Carpet’
Sedum album
Sedum floriferum Sedum spurium ‘Rosea’
Sedum fuldaglut
Sedum hispanicum
Sedum immergrunchen
Sedum kamtschaticum
Sedum rupestre
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Intensive areas:
Agastache x ‘Firebird’
Amsonia x ‘Blue Ice’
Aster cordifolius ‘Avondale’
Baptisia x ‘Purple Smoke’
Coreopsis verticillata ‘Crème Brulee’
Deschampsia flexuosa
Echinacea ‘Big Sky Sundown’
Gaura ‘Crimson Butterflies’
Helianthus angustifolius ‘Low Down’
Heuchera macrorhiza ‘Autumn Bride’
Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’
Polystichum acrostichoides
Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Blaze’ Stokesia x ‘Color Wheel’
Tradescantia x ‘Concord Grape’
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