Easy to grow /spread flowering plants?

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Hello all,

Have been given a lot of good advice on this board so back for more
Took a walk around my neighbourhood and noticed everyone's front garden heaving with little flowers - you know, the ones that could possibly be weed but maybe not. I know two - forget me nots and buttercups.

Can you please recommend some I could pick up and try to grow in soil? Seeds or plants? As long as they have smallish flowers.
Actually am I too late to plant for this year?

Many thanks!!

Aubretia, maybe?

Do you mean these? I also wondered what they were and they are indeed a weed but I like them!

Brilliant thanks both! Will look up

There's a gazillion blue campanula around London they grow everywhere. You could easily grab a few strands and plant them in seed compost...,

Erigeron karvinskianus can look great, it's small and daisy like and self seeds. I first saw it in the crevices of a flight of steps at a stately home. I tried it here in Scotland and it didn't do too well, probably too wet.

I've got a some ground cover plants growing from seed at the moment: moss rose, tunic flower, stone orpine, creeping thyme, tunic flower and campanula. The last two have taken a couple of weeks to germinate, but the rest sprouted through in days. I'm growing them in jiffy pellets, so it should hopefully be easy enough to plant them out.

I think the weather is a bit hot at this time of year to grow snow in summer from seed. The packet I bought suggested sowing September - November. With the other plants I've mentioned, you should be good to keep growing from seed throughout summer (that's my plan anyway)!

OK brilliant thanks I'll see what I can pick up from the above at the garden centre tomorrow.

If your not a keen gardener and want to cover some ground in plants that aren't weeds. Get some hardy geraniums. They will spread like anything and fill any gaps. They do take over though so be warned

My forget-me-nots are over, but I'm sure they'll have self seeded all over the place again for next year. So now is probably a good time to fling a packet or two of seeds over the soil where you'd like them.

How about nigella? I think you'd be just about in time to sow some this year.

Re Erigeron, it grows exuberantly down some steps at Sizergh Castle in the Lake District, which I'm sure gets plenty of rain - but not sitting around in damp soil I suppose.

If you like small flowers I'd get some alyssum plants, they have such a lovely honeyed scent.

Alyssum is a great little plant. I bought some once, didn’t pull it up at the end of summer and let it go to seed. Now every spring little plants pop up in cracks and planters.
I have found that Mimulus also has this habit.

Thank you, so much good advice posted. I'm clueless in the garden.