There are several that I like such as garlic chives. Almost invisible is the green spider waiting for small polinators he can grab ...

Coral vine pulls in all sorts of butterflies, wild bees and honey bees ...

But one that draws in a some different kinds of polinators, as well as being host to swallow tail butterfly larva, is fennel. There are some unusual black and white stripped wasps that I've never seen except when they come in for the fennel blooms ...

Zippity, what polinators work well for you? I'm also looking forward to reading other suggestions you'll be getting ... :-)

Poppies

For fall time, Liatris, snake broom weed, Ageratina havenens. Salvia chiquita

i like almost all herbs oregano, sage, thyme, dill, fennel, rosemary, lavender and mint...which i have planted at the base of a meyer lemon in a huge pot. Among my very best is May Knight Salvia, the bees here love love love it and a plant called Pirates Pearl, which looks a lot like blackfoot daisy and i've only found it at Arbor Gate in Tomball, but i haven't searched a lot in other nurserys. Cleome and coreopsis

An interesting thing i learned was that love bugs are good pollinators and they are all over my Ambridge rose blooms in particular and we have enough of these bugs to feed India and China-if they were edible..that is..... I generally garden for me and the bugs, no one else....

thank ya'll so much you can bet i'll have all the plants mentioned that i don't already have asap..... and the pics are wonderful

roselee i've never examined the actual flower of the coral vine til this pic these are beautiful individually

When my vitex is in bloom, it's always a bee magnet. Bees also love salvia farinacea, African blue basil, catmint, and the veronicas.

Butterflies are drawn to scabiosa, Gregg's mistflower, and abelias.

Turk's cap and some salvias bring in the hummers.

Michelle

Great thread. I have many of the plants listed above.

Bees and Butterflies also love my Texas Sage:

I have a Variegated Ligustrum that is covered in bees in spring (when it flowers). A lot of people say they stink, but I love the smell.