June Squares | Roofs

It’s June and another 30 day challenge from Becky.  ‘The Life of B’ This month she is looking for a roof or roofs or even rooves. Follow the link for the rules.

Up on the roof – the Living Green roof of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The Academy tested 35 native plant species to determine which would survive the best of this roof. Nine finalists were selected – both annual and perennial wildflowers to cover 90% of the roof. (Click on the link above and scroll to the bottom of the page to see the roof in all its glory)

  1. Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris)
  2. Sea Pink (Armeria maritima)
  3. Stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium)
  4. Tidy Tips (Layia platyglossa)
  5. Goldfield (Lasthenia californica)
  6. Miniature Lupine (Lupinus bicolor)
  7. Beach strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
  8. California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
  9. California Plantain (Plantago erecta)

June Square | 12th June

Roofs for a Black and White Sunday

It’s June and another 30 day challenge from Becky.  ‘The Life of B’ This month she is looking for a roof or roofs or even rooves. Follow the link for the rules.

A black and white timbered building in Ludlow, Shropshire with an M type or double-gabled roof.

June Square | 10th June

June Squares | Roofs

It’s June and another 30 day challenge from Becky.  ‘The Life of B’ This month she is looking for a roof or roofs or even rooves. Follow the link for the rules.

Brighton Pavilion, East Sussex, England

The spectacular seaside palace of the Prince Regent (George IV) transformed by John Nash between 1815 and 1823 into one of the most dazzling and exotic buildings in the British Isles.

June Square | 8th June