bedding plant
Seasonal flower starter
A bedding plant is a flowering or foliage plant grown to be transplanted into garden beds for seasonal display.
These are typically annuals or tender perennials raised in greenhouses or nurseries, then sold when they're ready to bloom or nearly so.
Gardeners use bedding plants to create colorful, uniform displays that last a single growing season: The garden center had flats of petunias and marigolds ready for bedding.
- annualOccurring every year
- vincasTrailing ornamental groundcovers
- garden centerPlant and supply retailer
- foliagePlant's leafy covering
- petuniaFunnel-shaped garden flower
flat · flowering · ornamental · transplanting · deadheading · bed · marigold · hardening off · frost date · growing season · full sun · partial shade · lobelia · root · groundcover · curb appeal · fertilizing · seedling
- plant termstree, shrub, vine, herb, fern
- nursery itemscrib, bassinet, cribs, dresser, changing table
- transplantsorgan transplant, liver transplant, bone marrow transplant, kidney transplant, heart transplant
bedding plantperennial
Recurring each year
perennial plant · shrub · tree · woody plant · evergreen