{"id":4533,"date":"2009-08-18T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2009-08-18T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:27:46","slug":"carpet-bedding-tribute-to-girl-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/carpet-bedding-tribute-to-girl-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpet Bedding Tribute to Girl Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3446\/3829989538_f2b7c8abb8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>100 years of Girl Guiding is being celebrated in September 2009 by Girl Guides around the country with a range of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlguiding100years.org.uk\/events_calendar.aspx\">appropriate events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This floral tribute is in the grounds of Carlisle Cathedral and has been created from just 4 types of carefully chosen <strong>&#8216;carpet bedding plants&#8217;.<\/strong> Contrasting shades of leaf and low, slow growing, uniform habit are more important than flowers. In fact flowers can distort such a display.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carpet Bedding Plants<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For leaf colour and regular form  Alternanthera lehmannii varieties take some beating like &#8216;Dark Purple Black&#8217;  Alternanthera lehmannii &#8216;Rosy Glow&#8217;  and Alternanthera lehmannii &#8216;Yellow Green Betty&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>For grey foliage  Lavender or Cerastium species with compact silver foliage and a white flower in summer.<\/li>\n<li> Sempervivum arach&#8217; &#8216;Rubin&#8217; or  Sedum spathulifolium &#8216;Purpureum&#8217; for reds<\/li>\n<li>Echeveria elegans for grey or the Glauca for a blue tinge<\/li>\n<li>Sedums are probably the easiest for your first efforts with the wide selection available<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/ul>\n<p><strong>Carpet bedding<\/strong> is the use of dwarf slow-growing compact colorful flowering and foliage plants in a geometrical arrangement. If you like <strong>the idea of trying a floral clock<\/strong> or your own design of carpet bedding  I recommend you buy your plants in bulk already grown in cells. You can grow from seed but aim for uniformity.<br \/>\nCarpet bedding may be planted up in early June based on a coloured in plan already prepared.  If 1-inch squared paper can be used this is ideal  for the gardener to plant in accordance with the scaled design, a 1 inch square on the plan corresponding to a 1 foot square on the bed.<br \/>\nMany beds look best when you can view them at a slope of about 45 \u00c2\u00b0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 years of Girl Guiding is being celebrated in September 2009 by Girl Guides around the country with a range of appropriate events. This floral tribute is in the grounds of Carlisle Cathedral and has been created from just 4 types of carefully chosen &#8216;carpet bedding plants&#8217;. Contrasting shades of leaf and low, slow growing, uniform habit are more important than flowers. In fact flowers can distort such a display. Carpet Bedding Plants For leaf colour and regular form Alternanthera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/carpet-bedding-tribute-to-girl-guides\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}