Carpet bedding employs two or more contrasting plant cultivars with a neat dwarf habit and distinct colouring of flower or foliage to create geometric displays.
Carpet bedding plant list.
They need well drained soil so if a location fails to drain properly create an elevated bed for better drainage.
It is often used to form such things as lettering logos or trademarks coats of arms or floral clocks.
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Sedums make good carpet bedding plants including varieties like sedum spathulifolium cape blanco and purpureum sedum pachyphyllum roseum album and the less hardy sedum stahlii.
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.
The amaryllis is a popular bedding plant.
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Carpet bedding needs a lot of plants.
Sempervivum are also most useful and can knoitt together with sedums to good effect try using sempervivum tectorum sempervivum stansfieldii or sempervivum arlanticum.
But its heyday was most definitely the first time round in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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.
Here is a selection of good plant varieties for creating a carpet bedding.