Roof gardens was a common sight in most of the places London, are enjoying a new start, together with the increasing popularity of the living roofs. Ken Livingstone, former Mayor’s green roof campaign main objective is to encourage people of London to make living green roofs, roof terraces and gardens as famous as in other main European cities. Mayor Livingstone says, latest building techniques enable for several types of green roofs and along with the small-scale gardens, it is possible to fix more ambitious greenery on bigger buildings ‘from meadows and wildlife habitats to golf courses, formal gardens and allotments.

Among the newest buildings homes to get a green roof is the New Providence Wharf housing plan in the Docklands, where there is a huge range of planting, from top swathes of sedum with wild flowers to more traditional and formal gardens. At the Canary Wharf, close by is the Barclays Bank tower it is 525 ft, is considered to be one of the popular rooftop gardens in the world. On a smaller scale, a latest housing plan at the Paddington Walk in the west London, the Gillespies is the landscaper; it has elegantly detailed gardens with different Indonesian, Moroccan and Japanese themes.

‘We thought a living roof will be a lot more attractive to look out on’ Living roofs are not new to the London city. They were famous during1930s, typified by attractive plans, like the living roof gardens at the Berkeley Court in Marylebone that remain a selling point of this big mansion block. Most wonderful is the 1 ½ acre urban oasis of the ‘Kensington Roof Garden’ with full-sized trees and pink flamingos, Spanish garden, an English woodland garden and Tudor garden.

On a smaller scale, the latest green scheme includes homeowners who would like to do something for the environment. In Highbury, Pia Conti installed a living roof of flowers and low-growing grasses on her garden extension.