What is Metro Meadow

Metro Meadow is an instant green roof system. A hardy native plant selection is grown on the ground in mats, harvested from our nursery and ready to easily transport and placed onto a rooftop. The pre-grown mats are placed on a system or rooftop soil, drainage and irrigation, creating an instant green coverage on any rooftop. Being instant ensures the benefits such as aesthetic and environmental values begin at the time of implementation.

Benefits

Green roofs create permeable surfaces that can intercept and absorb rainwater through plants and substrate, reducing stormwater runoff while filtering pollutants. Green roofs provide a patchwork of habitat in urban areas, creating habitat connectivity to larger green spaces. Furthermore, views of green roofs can help restore attention in the workplace and can provide restoration through the reduction of stress and improved mood and cognitive functioning.

Australian Native Plants

The meadow community consists of native Victorian plants. This community of plants was hand-selected to provide year-round green coverage and flushes of flowers from spring to autumn. Plants are adapted to native climates and shallow soils and will thrive in rooftop conditions. The plant community is a haven for biodiversity and flowering species will provide for local pollinators. The meadow will renew over time as plants will self-seed and spread.

Implementation

The implementation of Metro Meadow is designed for ease of use and instant results. The mats are delivered in rolls and can be placed directly onto the soil of your green roof. Simply transport the mats to the roof, place, and unroll. Mats are pre-cut into sizes that are manageable to move and easy to arrange on the rooftop with minimal cutting necessary. After placing the mats, water in, irrigate regularly, and watch the green roof flourish.

Brand Story

Metro meadow started as a dream when our founder, Phil Edwards, travelled to an international green roof conference and saw the cutting-edge technology that was being implemented abroad. He wanted to bring roll-out green roof mats to Australia that could be easily implemented in our local climate. From many rounds of small prototypes with Australian plants and substrates to growing green roof mats in our nursery, Metro Meadow has sprung to life and has now been implemented on green roofs across Melbourne.

 Our aim is to make green roofs as easy and affordable as possible to transform our city and make it liveable and climate-resilient. Utilising technology from Europe and America, we’ve created a product that is grown locally and adapted to the Australian climate. Metro Meadow creates an instant green roof and has the capacity to vastly change the landscape of our cities in Australia.

Australian Native Plants

  • Arthropodium milleflorum
    Pale Vanilla Lily

  • Brachyscome multifida
    Cut-leaf Daisy

  • Calocephalus citreus
    Lemon Beauty-heads

  • Chrysocephalum apiculatum
    Common Everlasting

  • Wahlenbergia stricta
    Australian Bluebell

  • Microlaena stipoides
    Weeping Grass