I assume you're in the UK?
I'm in the NW and have had loads of bees on lavenders and, earlier in the year, foxgloves. There obviously is a bee crisis from what I've heard in the media and if you look at the price of honey it's gone through the roof. Perhaps we all need to plant things that bees like. A scarey bit of info is that, without bees, the world would run out of food within a few months.