Which plant do the bees like best in your garden?

I've tried to include lots of plants which are attractive to bees and hoverflies, but at the moment they seem to be ignoring most of my efforts and concentrating on large patch of catmint. What do they like best in your garden?

 

At the moment it's Lavender and they are mostly honeybee's. :gnthb:

 

Depends what time of year it is ClaraLou.
As Roders says, at the moment it seems to be the Lavendar.
Later in the year it will be the sedums.
Just shortly I hope it will be my squash and courgettes.
The bees do seem to be a bit light on the ground this year. They are around but not just quite in the numbers we usually see.

 

I've recently got a beehive and have been planting only bee-friendly plants to accommodate them. Interestingly, the bumblebees and my honeybees in my garden seem to head for slightly different plants.
The bumbles love the salvia, lupins, delphiniums and penstemons, whereas the honeybees are always on the lavender (I've planted a whole hedgerow). I've also got some vipers bugloss on order as it's supposed to be the ultimate bee plant so we'll see...

 

in my garden the bees love salvia and thyme and ive also got some masonry bees and they love the clover in my grass :wink:

 

Sweet peas seem to attract them quite a lot.

 

At present it is Lonicera alseuomoides. Not a very bright flower and no scent, but even in the rain and wind there are over 200 bees on it. It is an evergreen climber with nice blue'black berries in Winter and flowers profusely from now till the end of Spetember.

 

Despite lavender, penstemon, stocks, sweet peas, phlox, salvia to name but a few, and a fair smattering of runner and french beans plus other veg, the one plant in my garden guaranteed to attract bees is the cotoneaster - unfortunately there was an accident with a pick-axe (best not to go into details!), but on the bit which is left - just outside my kitchen door - I counted 17 bees this afternoon and that's on a cold, blowy afternoon, so you can imagine what it's like on nicer days.

 

In our garden, it's no contest at the moment. Purple Loosestrife.

 

Don't see it mentioned above, but try Geum. The bees seem to love it.