Don’t try this at home unless you have infinite patience.

Carpet Bedding needs a lot of Plants

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

Sempervivum are also most useful and can knoitt together with sedums to good effect. Try using Sempervivum tectorum, Sempervivum stansfieldii or Sempervivum arlanticum.

Echeverias are arguably the most attractive of all succulents, highly valued for their stunning leaf colour and variation. Echeveria pulvinata, elegans, setosa, agavoides, harmsii, secunda glauca and Echeveria subsessilis are worth seeking out.

Apart from succulents other popular plants include Alternathera, Ajuga reptans, Tanacetum parthenium ‘Golden Moss’ and Sagina pilifera.

Carpet Bedding Information

Carpet bedding is the use of dwarf slow-growing, compact, colorful flowering and foliage plants in a geometrical arrangement.
Carpet bedding was developed from the 19th century to imitate carpet designs. Displays can be used to show logos company crests, messages and signs.
Some old designs replicated paisley patterns but more familiar are the round clock and parks garden displays.
Victorians often put borders around carpet beds. Low-growing lobelia makes a compact edging plant, but you could also substitute sweet alyssum.
It is detailed planning and careful planting that are needed to grow a convincing carpet bedding scheme.