The title about says it; both kinds of purple are flowers.
The little ones are a ground-cover recommended by a professional gardener for our front yard; since the kids play out back, we don’t want to be defending a grass lawn from moss and creeping buttercup and dandelions and all the other enemies. This stuff just spreads out and covers up and you can walk on it a bit while you’re gardening. Don’t know what it’s called.
Don’t know what the larger purple flowers are either.
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From: Chris (Jul 03 2009, at 01:49)
Aha! I've just had the same problem with the little blue flowers, as we have a patch of it in our garden, and liked it so much that we wanted to get more. I think it is a trailing bellflower, Campanula poscharskyana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula_poscharskyana
As for the larger one, I'm stumped!
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From: Dave (Jul 06 2009, at 11:11)
The larger ones are Canterbury Bells
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