Can anyone ID these two
I would be most grateful to anyone who might be able to help me id the two plants shown above.
The one on the left is a flowering shrub about 60cm in height. I cannot recall planting it. It started growing in early March. It appeared rather agressive in its growth so I nearly decided to suppress it but then let it be. It started flowering about 4 weeks ago and now has multiple bunches of small flowers with a delicate scent. Although not visible in the image the flowers are "two tone" - with a red center that fades to pink.
The second is a ground cover plant that I bought about 5 years ago. It was smaller than 10cm in diameter when I first planted it. It has now grown to cover an area of over 2 square meters. It appears to keep to itself, has never flowered and is no higher than 7-8 cm. My wife often jokes that if we visit our village in 100 years from now we will find that it has been replaced by a carpet of this green stuff.
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I think the first one is a sweet william. The second appears to have tiny yellow flowers in the axils, it is probably one of the ground cover sedums.
You may well be right. I googled for a few images based on your answer. The second one looks remarkably like the one in this picture
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/54/ab/2d/54ab2d5b9c8eecfb0be2e2efc13015e5.jpg
With the Sweet William the leaf is easily ID'd. The ones on my plant look remarkably like the ones here
http://media.growsonyou.com/photos/question/image/163938/main/image.jpg
Just how it ended up in my garden is a mystery. I gather that it is usually grown from seed. I certainly did not buy the seed. I have a patch of wild flowers just alongside so it might well be that it slipped in with them. In any case it is more than welcome to stay
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Thank you for your help.
first one definetly a sweet william
sweet William a cert,the other looks like possibly Raouila australis or one of the same family.
I checked out Raoulia Australis. I have to say what I have looks more like a sedum. Thank you for the answer though. I did not know of Raoulia Australis. It looks like a handy little ground cover to try out somewhere else in our garden