Ground cover flowers

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Hi,

Can anyone suggest some ground cover flowers please, I've planted some shrubs in the border but it's still looking quite bare, I'm sure once everything starts growing it will look better.

Thanks

Cheap and cheerful Have a browse for hardy annual seeds. Perfect time for sowing them, they go straight into the ground (no need to start them indoors), very inexpensive. Lots to choose from. I love calendula (pot/English marigolds). Try some Virginia stock - v. easy and I saw a good tip. Mix them with night-scented stock so you get perfume as well.

Excellent to fill in whilst your shrubs develop.

We like periwinkle. Hardy and has lovely blue flowers.

You can also get white vinca (aka periwinkle). Vinca will spread easily.

I filled my borders with wallflowers. Not instant colour but when they come out they look beautiful and smell amazing!

Have just been looking up the same thing, geranium Rozanne looks interesting.

Campanula is gorgeous, very hardy.
I got mine from Aldi years ago, they usually have it every year.

Heuchera is nice, very small flowers but the leaves come in black, purple, acid green, regular green, orange...

Phlox, nicely scented aswell.

Sweet alyssum is lovely, super strong honey scent, it dies in winter but comes back every year.

Certain types of Sedums.

Trenague camomile/lawn camomile is nice aswell

Hardy geraniums , best plants ever , they spread massively and seem to grow anywhere .

What shrubs did you plant?
Best be mindful of any shade they may create as that will reduce your ground cover options...

What @Floralnomad said.

I'm loving Saxifraga, Armeria and a low growing sedum at the moment

Also vinca major and minor

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm googling and checking them all out. I would like instant colour so prefer plants rather than seeds.

@Snappymcsnappy so far I've got hebe, bleeding heart, hosta, Fuchsia and a few heuchera, it's only one side of a smallish border.

I have Armeria (thrift) as well and it's lovely, very easy.

I will warn you about mossy saxifrage, it is one of my favourite flowers.
I have grown in it in full sun, somewhat sandy well drained soil and it died.
And I have grown it in partial shade, heavier clay soil where it also died....

Oh I'm gutted for you Sandy - they are gorgeous

I have no idea of my soil type but I have Saxifraga in three borders and under a large tree (and lots of pots and a bath!) all different aspects, two are very shaded until the later part of the day and all are thriving so far, waits for them to keel over

They were cheap, something like 10 for £5 which is how I discovered them but had no idea how to care for them other than keep them moist