Definition of Bedding plant

1. Noun. An ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed.

Exact synonyms: Bedder
Generic synonyms: Garden Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedding Plant

bedcover
bedcovering
bedcoverings
bedcovers
bedde
bedded
bedded in
bedder
bedders
bedding
bedding and linens
bedding geranium
bedding material
bedding plane
bedding plant (current term)
beddings
beddy
beddy-bye
beddy-byes
bede
bedeafen
bedeafened
bedeafening
bedeafens
bedeal
bedeck
bedecked
bedecked(p)
bedecking

Literary usage of Bedding plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening by Robert Morris Copeland (1860)
"The Lobelia is a very pretty bedding plant. I mean the bine and purple kinds. ... Nemophila is well known and much praised as an annual bedding plant. ..."

2. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1856)
"It is a profuse bloomer, and makes a most effective bed ; indeed, it was the most conspicuous bedding plant in the whole of our flower garden, ..."

3. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1856)
"It is a profuse bloomer, and makes a most effective bed ; indeed, it was the most conspicuous bedding plant in the whole of our flower garden, ..."

4. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening by Robert Morris Copeland (1866)
"The Lobelia is a very pretty bedding plant. I mean the blue and purple kinds. The L. Cardinalis is a tall growing, splendid crimson flower, and should be ..."

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