Plant of the Day
Wednesday 21 August 2019
The landscaping of the Macallan Distillery, Speyside, Scotland, includes a living meadow roof over which the swallows were swooping and collecting insects. The new distillery was built in a designated Area of Great Landscape Value and so needed to be sympathetic to its environment. The roof is a complicated timber structure comprising of 1,800 single beams. As a factory, the roof above the production distillery did not require thermal insulation for building regulation compliance however insulation was provided to protect the living green roof from the warming and drying effects of the production below. The drama of the entrance walk is enhanced by the arching sprays of the intense, fiery red flowers of the herbaceous perennial Crocosmia 'Lucifer’ (montbretia).
Jill Raggett
