Living on the rooftop making a garden. Netizens say: I'd trade my villa for yours.

Planting flowers, moving house, even if I can't afford a villa, living on the rooftop

Buying flowers, buying pots, even if it's a one-way road to ruin

I just want flowers in full bloom, until the very end

I just want life to go on, and the fussing never to stop

The climate here isn't too hot in summer. On the hottest days, a fan is enough to get by. The top-floor rooms are hotter than other floors, but the cool breeze blowing in feels great.

The soil was taken from a vegetable plot seized by the developer. It cost nothing, but I paid over 1,000 yuan in total for transport and labor.

I consulted experts about the load-bearing issue, and there shouldn't be any problem.

The wooden walkway is a raised platform made of treated timber, which withstands sun and rain. Above the platform there's an eaves 1.5 m wide.

I suggest adding several more drainage outlets on the terrace, so that when the rain is heavy, the standing water drains away fast.

The staircase was added later by myself. I can't remember how much it cost, but it wasn't expensive anyway.

The flower pots on the wall are clay pots, which are quite heavy. The strong winds here generally can't blow them off, and with a ring of lightning-rod steel bars outside blocking them, even if they were blown off they'd fall into the yard, not outward. So far, only the plastic flower pots on the wall have been blown off.

Rooftop

On the rooftop, roses (Rosa), geraniums (Pelargonium) and clematis (Clematis) are more suitable to grow; plant fewer herbaceous plants.