25 Green Roofs That Bring Spectacular Homes to New Levels

When Bay Area landscape designer Loretta Gargan had the opportunity to work on her own home—a one-bedroom weekend cottage in Marin County, California, shared with her partner, artist Catherine Wagner—the couple "mapped the idiosyncratic plants that had to stay," Loretta says. This included old oaks and a hundred-year-old olive tree intertwined with a vigorous climbing white rose. The homeowners also incorporated a green roof, which blooms with poppies, strawberries, and a spectrum of native wildflowers.