Carpet bed

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Carpet bed in the castle park of Ciechocinek

A carpet bed (decorative bed ) is a bed that is so densely planted that the individual plant does not matter, but the effect is achieved through patterns that are created by planting differently colored plants. The single plant is only a small element in a mosaic picture , it only acts as a contribution to a colored area.

history

Flower clock with clockwork at the Zittau butcher's bastion

Carpet beds already existed in the baroque era . Pattern books for carpet beds had been around since 1853. Carpet beds were especially fashionable in Germany in the second half of the 19th century, until around World War I , and in France they lasted longer. The view was that carpet beds were only permitted as decoration in direct connection with buildings or monuments and that the ornamentation of the carpet bed had to be determined by the object to which they refer. The pattern should be as simple as possible, keep as flat as possible on the ground and be two-dimensional. Therefore, plants of small, stocky growth were to be used. Plastic carpet beds were rejected. Carpet beds always had to be bordered by lawn. It was also important to ensure that the color effect lasted the whole summer, which was usually easier to ensure with plants with colored foliage than with flowers ( lobelia ). Planted flower clocks or coats of arms are a special form of carpet beds .

The massive need for plants and the maintenance of the drawing over an entire summer made carpet beds very expensive and a matter of prestige. They were therefore mainly to be found in gardens of the upper class, in palace parks and the gardens of upper-class villas. Today, carpet beds are rarely found, for example in listed green spaces or at federal or state horticultural shows .

See also

literature

  • Carl Hampel : Garden beds and groups . Berlin 1901, ( online ).
  • E. Levy: Sample album of the modern carpet nursery . 7th edition, Berthold, Leipzig 1900.
  • Carpet bed . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885-1892, p.
  • WAC Niemann: The carpet gardener. With special consideration of the carpet beds at the Hamburg International Horticultural Exhibition in 1869 . In: Die Gartenkunst 3 (1/1991), pp. 17–28.
  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The art of carpet gardening . In: Die Gartenkunst 3 (1/1991), pp. 1–16.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wimmer, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Wimmer, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Wimmer, p. 9f.
  4. ↑ Keyword " Carpet bed ". In: Meyers.
  5. ↑ Wimmer, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Keyword " Carpet bed ". In: Meyers.