Sin­ce 2022, Jen­ni­fer Richard and her hus­band Char­lie have had a house with a lar­ge gar­den that is laid out and main­tai­ned in a natu­ral way. They are con­stant­ly adding new living are­as. They plan­ted a flat roof with nati­ve plants, equip­ped it with insect nes­t­ing aids and water points and have now trans­for­med the 30 m² into ano­ther place for birds and insects and have achie­ved a lot with their Green roof­top oasis 1st place in the “Deutsch­land summt!” plan­ting com­pe­ti­ti­on in the bal­co­nies, ter­races, roof gar­dens, ver­ti­cal gar­dens cate­go­ry in 2024. Jen­ni­fer impres­ses as a doer becau­se she is com­mit­ted to hedge­hogs with a hedge­hog fee­ding sta­ti­on. She is also an inspec­tor for the Thousand Gar­dens, Thousand Spe­ci­es pro­ject, which pro­mo­tes nati­ve wild plants. On Insta­gram, Jen­ni­fer is known as nati­ve habi­tat tog­e­ther with four hedge­hog cha­ri­ties, quick­ly orga­ni­zed an infor­ma­ti­ve online Advent calen­dar about bio­di­ver­si­ty. As is some­ti­mes the case, the who­le thing ended up being big­ger than expec­ted. They wan­ted to show ways to sup­port the 1TP5 ani­mal of the year, the hedge­hog, and they suc­cee­ded.

Con­tents:

Jen­ni­fer pres­ents the rede­sign of her gar­den and hop­eful­ly encou­ra­ges peo­p­le to get invol­ved. It is beco­ming incre­asing­ly clear and well-known how important green roofs and house walls are for impro­ving the micro­cli­ma­te and bin­ding par­ti­cu­la­te mat­ter. The pro­ject shows how a pre­vious­ly unplan­ted flat roof can be trans­for­med into an enchan­ted para­di­se with a lot of pas­si­on and com­mit­ment. Jen­ni­fer and Char­lie have trans­for­med the gar­den, inclu­ding the roof, into a sui­ta­ble place for birds and insects with nati­ve plants, nes­t­ing aids and num­e­rous water points.