The Garden Carpet

I have considered laying old carpet or carpet underlay with the hope that this will remain damp then top dressing then a new lawn.

The garden carpet.

My problem is that water runs straight through the garden and weeps into the canal thereby over draining the lawn even after heavy watering or rain with the result being a forever dry brown and unhealthy lawn. Explore carpet colors patterns textures. See the latest trends in carpeting order samples. Garden carpet most of the literal representations of gardens that appear in persian carpets combine an aerial or bird s eye view of the classic four part garden chahar bagh with bands and squares of pavilions trees flowers and birds shown in vertical projection.

Photo by john krill. For comparison in the wagner garden carpet which is quite a bit smaller the avenues of trees are close to a metre high compared with perhaps forty centimetres in the jaipur carpet. Garden carpet floor covering designed as a persian garden seen from directly above. The design consists of a central watercourse with tributary canals of various sizes interrupted by islands or by ponds containing waterfowl and fishes lined by avenues of stylized small trees and shrubs that.

The oldest surviving and most beautiful carpet of this type is a very large example almost 29 feet long that belongs to the. I put some down 10 12 years ago at the side of the house and covered with small river pebbles and a few weeds have only just started to appear this past few years. Except for pulling an occasional weed from the squares a carpet based garden mulch requires little care. Two long parallel water channels linked by a central pool and two short tributaries form the shape of the letter h and create six rectangular sections.

See shaw s new life happens water proof carpet. And your plants will thrive. What s more the creatures and foliage in those sections are oriented so that a person sitting at the centre of the.