bedding plant
Noun: A bedding plant is an ornamental plant, typically an annual or sometimes a perennial, that is grown and planted in groups or masses to provide temporary, seasonal color and display in a garden flowerbed, border, or container. These plants are often used to create dense, colorful patterns and are generally not intended to be permanent features of the landscape.
The term "bedding plant" is used to categorize and describe plants based on their horticultural use in garden design. It refers to the plant's role and placement rather than a specific botanical family. - It is commonly used by gardeners, landscapers, and in garden centers. - The phrase often implies the plants are purchased or started in advance (e.g., in a greenhouse) and then transplanted into their final decorative positions.
- Noun:
- The garden center has a large selection of bedding plants like petunias and marigolds for spring planting.
- She spent the afternoon arranging colorful bedding plants in the new border by the driveway.
- For a summer display, consider using heat-tolerant bedding plants such as zinnias or salvia.
- "Bedding plant" as a concept in horticulture often involves planning for successive blooms through different seasons (e.g., spring bedding, summer bedding).
- The head gardener is planning the bedding plant scheme for the municipal park's summer festival.
- Bedding (noun, horticultural sense): The practice or result of planting flowerbeds with such plants.
- The park is famous for its elaborate Victorian-style bedding.
- Bed out (phrasal verb): To transplant young plants into a flowerbed.
- We need to bed out the seedlings after the last frost.
- Annual (when referring to a plant that completes its life cycle in one season, which many bedding plants are).
- Ornamental (a broader term for any plant grown for decorative purposes).
- Bedding scheme: The planned design or arrangement of bedding plants in an area.
- The geometric bedding scheme used red and white begonias.
- Spring bedding: Plants used for display in the spring, often including bulbs and biennials like pansies.
- Summer bedding: Plants used for display in the summer, typically tender annuals.
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an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed
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