How to Attract Bees?

How do we attract bees other than planting pretty flowers?

It seems thi8s is the year without bees as we have only seen two near our wildlife water pan.

Sprinkle a little lemongrass oil around. I've heard peppermint oil also works but have never tried it.

They love mountain mint plants! It's crazy! All the bumble bees, native bees, and honey bees, actually weigh the plants down so that they're bending over from all the weight of all the appreciative insects on them. And they're so easy to grow as well. Nothing fussy about them. You'd just need to see if you are in the right area for them, of course.