Can anyone recommend some low to the ground flowers/plants?

MrCheeseman

I'm looking for some low to the ground flowers, eg, ones that don't have long stalks, to put along a boundary. I've seen some before that were very low to the ground but I can't remember what they were like. Can anyone recommend any? I'm looking to plant them in a straight line so I preferably want ones that don't spread out too much either. 

ruthber

Busy Lizzy

twopenny

The new ish Flower Carpet roses are low, highly scented and require almost no maintenance.
There is a Ceonothus that is dwarf and grows sideways not up.
Heathers come in all sizes.

Happy_Sloth

Phlox is pretty very low growing carpet type flower. 

WeAreGhosts

Erigeron?
Forget-Me-Not?
Soapwort?

I have all three along low parts of the garden. Soapwort is a new one for me this year and it's prettier than I thought it was going to be. It wants to travel a bit but I just keep cutting of the small stems that I don't want.

Or do you want something evergreen?

mgfvvc

Oregano/marjoram will provide ingredients as well as ground cover and flowers

-taff

While we're on the subject, does anyone know what the low growing flowers are that are brightly coloured, and look like miniature but much fluffier gerberas?

goldfinches

-taff said:

While we're on the subject, does anyone know what the low growing flowers are that are brightly coloured, and look like miniature but much fluffier gerberas?

could they be pinks?

-taff

No, not pinks unfortunately...They grow in a kind of mat, they're single stemmed flowers, the heads are small, colourful and they look quite bushy with a central circlet/floret that's lower than the petals. They're like a daisy on acid but the colours of gerberas...

goldfinches

got any photos? Sorry for the delay in replying, I fell asleep on the sofa.

-taff

No worries No, I can't find photos online because I'm not putitng in the right search terms...I see them sometimes when you get shots of gardens in gardening programmes but maddeningly, they never say, Oh , this is Daisy On Acid...or whatever...

edited bit...I think I may have found them, I redoubled my search efforts narrowing down as I went and this is what I ended up with

Bellis Daisy.....Woop woop! Thank you for your help @goldfinches