Here is a selection of good plant varieties for creating a carpet bedding.
Carpet bedding plants.
Displays can be used to show logos company crests messages and signs.
Designs are often technically complex and can include highly intricate displays such as floral clocks lettering or coats of arms.
Plants used for bedding are generally annuals biennials or tender perennials.
Using flowers to make words involves planting colorful flowering plants usually annuals close together so that they resemble a carpet which is why this method of planting may also be referred to as carpet bedding.
Like many other fashions and fads in gardening carpet bedding and bedding plant schemes have been in and out of favour.
Popular now in the early twenty first century it was a favourite style in the 1920s and 1950s.
The plants chosen should be healthy strong growers with a profusion of consistent color.
Forming words with plants works best if you have a fairly large space too.
Carpet bedding was developed from the 19th century to imitate carpet designs.
Carpet bedding is the use of dwarf slow growing compact colorful flowering and foliage plants in a geometrical arrangement.
Succulents are gaining in popularity.
Select good quality foliage plants for creating the carpet bedding.
Bedding in horticulture refers to the temporary planting of fast growing plants into flower beds to create colourful temporary seasonal displays during spring summer or winter.
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Tropical bedding was also an option with chusan palms cordylines cannas and bananas adding a touch of height and drama.
Writing with bedding plants.
Carpet bedding is the most intensive form of bedding and uses plants that are so compact and tightly knitted that the appearance is akin to a woven carpet.
In semi tropical bedding and carpet bedding.
But its heyday was most definitely the first time round in the early and mid nineteenth century.