What attracts pollinator's to the garden?

What is your favorite bee attracting plant? I live in a very busy area, and I have difficulty attracting pollinator's to my garden.
I am sure that there are gardeners in a similar situation such as myself. For example for the past 3 years I have grown zucchini which is supposed to be really prolific in nature and normally it is.

However, my success rate in the past has been 3 zucchini plants that grew exceptionally well bloomed prolifically unfortunately for me the yield was only 3-4 zucchinis each year two were on one plant and one was on the other and the third plant produced nothing at all! There's simply something wrong with that picture...
So this past year I also started some borage seeds, and only had one borage plant successfully grow to produce blooms that the bumble bees simply adored! The following results with the zucchini were by far much better - hooray! A whole lot more zucchinis produced on fewer plants. I only planted two since the past couple of years were complete dud's on production. I was getting a little exasperated!
So anyways I'm pretty sure my problem was based on a lack of pollinator's to my garden.

So with that said.. What is your favorite easy to grow bee attracting plant?? Inquiring minds sure would like to know!

happy gardening
bgrow_gardens

Anise hyssop is a sure fire bee attractant. It's a beautiful flowering herb that attracts bees like crazy. You can also make a lovely tea (tisane) from the leaves.

My wonderful wife is terrified of bees and I planted Annise hyssop in a pot right next to our door to our yard - big mistake, almost every night we'd end up with bees in our house and I just couldn't figure out why - NOW I KNOW!!!!! hurray!

It would be to your advantage to research on the pollinators in your area so that selecting a flowering plants would be easier. On a side note, I'm new to my area, so growing some flowering plants should be on my check list, incase there aren't many pollinators in my area they'll be attracted my way, so thank you for bring the topic up

Nice
I will have to keep that in mind when I am looking at seeds next time...

How big does the plant get, and flower color? You mentioned that it is an herb, which makes it even better. Is it safe to assume that it is a perennial?

Thanks for the tip. I'm trying to compile a short list of plants that will specifically attract pollinator's (bee's) to the garden.

bgrow_gardens

That is hilarious Mitch!

Mystery solved for you!
I'm definitely going to try and find some seeds for this plant. It sounds like a winner to me.
I'm not sure if you know this but you probably do.

Bee's are responsible for every third bite of food that we eat. Talk about some true work horses in the garden....

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