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We have a funny looking bush in our garden that doesn't even have very large flowers on it - but bees (both honey bees and bumble bees) just love it - its always thick with them over the summer even though we have loads of other flowers in our garden.

What I particularly love is the sound of a number of bees - fantastically relaxing.

We have a similar one -- a Cotoneaster. Turns out bees love it in May.

I have a lilac bush that depending on the time of year you're bound to bump into (and bee bumped into) by the local bumble bees who are floating around it.

Bumble bees seem like they're perpetually out of control.

These fruits (from the Rosaceae family) are mostly self-incompatible, and depend a lot on bees.

We've had fruit trees and grown vegetables in our garden for getting on 10 years and started beekeeping 3 years ago. We've had huge amounts of produce ever since (UK).