Bellflowers and chives (5/8)

This is in front of the soup kitchen building. The tube-shaped flowers are bell flowers and there are purple, blue, pink, and white ones blooming. I didn’t plant these, they were already growing there when I started. However, they weren’t blooming and they didn’t bloom the first year. The picture takes in about 4 feet of a 25-foot flower bed and there are now bellflowers (and a few primroses) growing the whole length of it.

The whitish blossoms in the picture in the upper right are chives. The blossoms are usually blue, but these opened about a month ago, so they have faded to white. When they start drying out, I plan on removing the chive blossoms, which should cause the plants to put out new blossoms. Doing this, I can have the chives blooming for most of the growing season.

The plants growing here are highly attractive to hummingbirds and bumblebees.