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Are these weeds?
hello i have two pics to post whilst tidying the borders today. i was wondering if first pic was astrantia I had planted it there last year but not sure on the leaf and it seems to be wanting to send out runners which I don't think astrantia do? Many thanks 
apologies if photos and text are all over place I was doing this from my phone
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The first and second photos are Creeping Buttercup.
The third looks like a strawberry leaf.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
1st and 2nd - creeping buttercup. 3rd, maybe alpine strawberry.
Snap! Obelixx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks dove and obelixx better make sure I get rid of the buttercup thing! I thought the other one looked like a strawberry leaf but just couldn't work out how it got there.
Probably a wild strawberry, a gift from the birds. Keep an eye on it as they can be invasive and propagate in a similar way to buttercups using both runners and seeds.
Some wild or alpine strawberries have lovely, perfumed flavour and some are deeply bland and boring so, as Bob says, keep an eye on it. If it produces good fruit, plant it in a confined spece where you can control it. Otherwise, get rid.