Green Carpet Bedding Plants

I don t know about you but my eyes cross when i start looking at the pretty gardening magazines and the intricate arrangements of plants in each garden bed.

Green carpet bedding plants.

Carpet bedding solves many problems for the average home gardener. Carpet bedding is the process of planting blooming annuals close together in a carefully planned design think persian rug made of petals. So many rules to remember. But its heyday was most definitely the first time round in the early and mid nineteenth century.

The tiny leaves create a dense evergreen carpet becoming bronze to gold in winter. Carpet bedding became particularly popular relying on low height plants such as sedums and sempervivums to mark out geometric and abstract patterns inspired by carpet motifs. These plants which can be annuals perennials or biennials can be grown from seeds in the ground or in containers. Late spring to early summer.

In an attempt to display these new plants and thus show a sense of prestige in owning the latest plant variety gardeners both in england and america encouraged the fashion of carpet bedding. May need some periodic watering during periods of extreme drought. These garden photos and carpet bedding ideas are sure to delight even those who plan only to admire. The plants chosen should be healthy strong growers with a profusion of consistent color.

Like many other fashions and fads in gardening carpet bedding and bedding plant schemes have been in and out of favour. Often used as base fillers in beds and also used in formal carpet bedding schemes. Start simple and graduate to more complex styles or just jump right in. Popular now in the early twenty first century it was a favourite style in the 1920s and 1950s.

Also known as rupturewort. Growth rate is moderate and is not invasive. Herniaria glabra also known as rupturewort or green carpet is a soft to walk on evergreen grass substitute for many people or the perfect ground cover. In semi tropical bedding and carpet bedding.

Grows best in soils from 5 5 to 7 0. The university of florida extension recommends choosing only a few types of flowers for a flowerbed because too many. Coleus in various shades of red maroon and scarlet light and dark yellow green and white and other varieties. Select good quality foliage plants for creating the carpet bedding.

3 inches in height but spreads rapidly. Tropical bedding was also an option with chusan palms cordylines cannas and bananas adding a touch of height and drama. They were not hardy plants for the freeze of winter but provided ample color and texture as annuals for the summer garden. Bedding plants are often used to give a splash of color to a boring landscape.

Very tiny green flowers. 4 to 8. And then you have to deal with green all that green so many shades.