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What is a good ground covering or foliage to cover up bare spots in my flower garden?

I am going to begin planting a flower garden tomorrow and it will consist of carpet of snow around the borders (then rocks as a barrier to keep the flowers from spilling into the yard) behind the carpet of snow will be poppies, zinnia and cosmos, maybe another couple of types of flowers. But what kind of foliage or green "filler" can I use to cover spots where flowers haven't grown, that isn't too high? I don't want it to hurt the flowers or be taller than them

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1. Depends on weather it's shady or sunny...Shade: small hostas, low growing grasses Sun: low growing grasses
2. I use "Cransebill geranium" It is a perennial plant very unlike the annual geraniums you see. I've posted a link for you to check it out: http://www.americanmeadows.com/Perennials/GeraniumsHardy.aspx?gclid=CNn9nrWXiqECFdtL5Qod-zDGQg I have several varieties that vary in height from 4 in. to 1 ft. They also come in various shades of blue-violet purples and pinks. I find that it blooms nearly all summer and is very hardy in zone 5. Good luck!
3. How invasive of a plant are you looking for? There's one that you can just place in the ground and it will spread to any open space. If that's what you're looking for, I will find out the name of them. They are not flowers, but have burgundy colored leaves. They grow short and do not get tall.
4. It sounds like you have a sunny area based on the other plants you listed. Creeping or woolly thyme, vinca minor, and sedums are all groundcovers that like sun. There are also low growing veronicas. All will have small flowers also except the woolly thyme.
5. ....herbacious geraniums like geranium 'brookside blue', but there are so many different ground cover herbacious geraniums, also geranium sanguineum striatum (bloody cranes bill) is very pretty pink not as rampant as brookside blue, it is lower approximately 6" (15cm) height and about 1foot (30cm) spread, there is another very beautiful geranium that will grow in a small clump, more like a rockery plant and that is geranium 'ballerina' it is a veined pale pink flower.