What are some of the best 'spreader' flowers?

I have a flower garden and I'd like to know which plants will ''spread' or grow out after planted.

What are some of the best 'spreader' flowers?
It depends where you live and what garden zone you are in- Bugle is a very nice ground cover- So are lots of succulant plants. Go to your local garden shop and ask them what grows best in your area!
Reply:lambs ears, pachysandra, vinca
Reply:Based on your geo location, most annuals will spread as they mature. I like to use Zinnias as once mature, you need to keep them dead headed-that is cut away the spent flowers-and they will expand and rebloom until frost. If you keep the spent flowers pinched off.





If you will pinch off the top portion of most any plant it will grow two or more new lateral buds and expand the plant as it does. Steady pinching will allow the plant to encompass an area and fill in where you desire.





Use the internet and seek out the flowers that do best in your heat zone map.
Reply:alyssium and impations
Reply:Again dependant on your zone-- mine is 7-- Daffodils multiply nicely-- as do grape muscari. In fact, I planted grape muscari over my parent's grave sites-- the cemetary is a "clean cut" type ( they mow over everything possible and edge standing stones-- they don't want any flowers growing)-- and the grape muscari come up-- bloom, reseed themselves before the clean cutting begins here-- I love it when I can break a "rule" and get away with it! Almost covering the entire three spaces now ( Daddy didn't want to be crowded!)


Also a succlent kin to Hen and Chicks-- Sedum Autum Joy-- green in the summer-- flower heads show well thru snow-- and they spread easily. If you want some in a different place-- break off a stem, give it 24 hours exposed to the air-- and stick in the ground and water. Most will root.


Tick seed-- coreopsis reseeds itself- you do need to recognize the leaf so you don't "weed" it out.


Cone flower will reseed itself-- most of the daisys also reseed. Sweet William is a bienniel-- blooms year one, drops seed, dies out-- plants reseed and the cycle repeats. So you'll need to buy one and the next year buy another one-- that should do it-- again, you need to know what the leaf looks like.....


good luck-- there are more .....
Reply:i like the little flower of a good looking long haired women my self