I love Hummingbird Moths. They are soooo interesting.

Looks a bit like a bumble bee, with the yellow and black fuzzy body.

Beautiful blooms! Remind me of my onion chives, except they're more pale lavender and not such a deep purple. Beautiful!

I don't understand why people don't landscape with herbs. They can be so beautiful. I think Lemon Grass is a particularly striking and willowy show-off in the garden. It would be gorgeous to line stone pathways with. Or just as a beautifully tall, wispy plant that helped show off the color of other blooming herbs or flowers.

Then again, if I lived in a zone where rosemary could be planted and left in the ground, my entire back fence would be nothing but a rosemary hedge. :-)

That lower photo looks like allium blossoms of some kind.

The lower photo is of a purple bee balm. The flower is reminiscent of alliums but the stems and leaves show that it is on a plant of the mint family. Here's a picture of a red bee balm blossom:
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I plant herbs throughout my flower beds and veggie beds. The catmint and bee balm blossoms shown are in the "herb quilt" portion that is the entryway to my veggie garden. In our current drought condition, the herbs are practically my only blooming plants. My garden zinnias are starting to bloom, but that's only because they get watered. My front flower bed is usually bursting with color this time of year, but because of a late snow April 15th followed by drought with bunny foraging followed by a severe hailstorm 6/17 followed by MORE drought there's not much blooming. :-(
Here's a shot of my front flower bed from 7/1/07:
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Here's a front view of that same flower bed from 6/28/05:
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We need rain here....NOT HAIL.

If nothing was flowering I would have thought it all to be an overweeded lawn. If you can use soaker hoses for watering, that might help a little, provided there is no watering ban.