Bold and colourful garden

A garden with a greenhouse, full of carpet bedding and glorious colour.

Date

Permanent

Price

Free

Gardens

About

A passion for gardening exploded in the 1800s. Greenhouses became more affordable and expanded the variety of plants that could be grown by amateur gardeners.

Brightly-coloured flowers were planted in displays called carpet bedding, as they resembled the busy floral carpets of homes in the Victorian era (1837–1901).

As people spent increasing amounts of leisure time in the garden, the link between gardens and wellbeing became recognised.