Amaryllises also need fertilizer for continued blooming.
Carpet bedding plant list.
Select good quality foliage plants for creating the carpet bedding.
They need well drained soil so if a location fails to drain properly create an elevated bed for better drainage.
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.
Like many other fashions and fads in gardening carpet bedding and bedding plant schemes have been in and out of favour.
Coleus in various shades of red maroon and scarlet light and dark yellow green and white and other varieties.
Grown from bulbs amaryllises produce solid or mixed blooms of pink red and white.
Here is a selection of good plant varieties for creating a carpet bedding.
The plants chosen should be healthy strong growers with a profusion of consistent color.
Popular now in the early twenty first century it was a favourite style in the 1920s and 1950s.
The amaryllis is a popular bedding plant.
It is often used to form such things as lettering logos or trademarks coats of arms or floral clocks.
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.
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.