Pollinator encouragement

[Cutecumber]

Can anyone recommend some flowering plants which can help attract pollinators in late April/ May?

I am having trouble with my broad beans setting and would like to encourage more pollinators in the garden. There's not a lot of available space, so something that I could sow in a pot, or amongst other flowers would be ideal. Perhaps some annuals?

Any ideas (for next year!) ???

[nick the grief]

Broad beans shouldn't need anything Cute. Mine were grown in a warm box ( sort of topless cloche affair) and they cropped OK. Thinks like Aubretia I guess would be good ( they purple flowered one that folks grow in rockeries) other wise I'd say Daffs & Crocus but it might be a bit late for them.

[Cutecumber]

About half the flowers on my broad beans don't set. I've tried a few varieties, but it's always the same. Always a small crop.

Unless I've missed something, they need pollinating by long-tongued bumblebees, so I wanted to encourage these by having some other attractive plants around. We have plenty of bees in general, but most just steal the pollen from the back of the flower - I've watched them do it! All those flowers are now just falling off.

[Flummery]

Limnanthes - poached egg plant - is said to be a great attractor to bees. Never grown it but there's a garden near my Ma's house with a huge bed of it - it looks very cheerful.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Limnanthes - poached egg plant - is said to be a great attractor to bees. Never grown it but there's a garden near my Ma's house with a huge bed of it - it looks very cheerful.

They are lovely - here's a pic of my poached eggs - in a pot (and spilling over!) - they are indeed very cheerful indeed!

[Flummery]

Isn't Monarda also called bee balm? Clue in there maybe?