I was thinking, there’s a ton of rooftop space on top of nyc apartment buildings, and it’s often pretty easy to get onto the roofs. Are there any potted plants i can leave up there that need zero care and are good for local pollinators or native wildlife or whatever?
They’d need to be small and light enough to climb up with.
Ideas?
They’re in the ground though. Maybe some weeds could survive in a pot but it’s a much more challenging environment than even a pavement crack.
That said if you can get a container big enough that it won’t dry out between rain events you may have success.
Zillions of wild plants grow extremely well in unattended planter pots in nyc. They’re all over the place.
And there’s no such thing as “weeds”. A weed just means a plant that grew itself in a spot where a person didn’t want it to be. A weed is just a plant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed
When people set out empty planters of soil they always wind up growing lush with random plants. The question isn’t what plants can grow by themselves there, because that does itself. -
My question is what plants can i plant there that would be especially good for the environment?
I know what a weed is. I’m not using it as a derogatory term. It’s just a perfect description of the kind of plants that might work here.
I would contact a local native plant society and see what “weedy” native species are going to be best adapted to a hot, dry, windy rooftop.