I always recommend adding a layer of bee-attracting plantings to the outside perimeter of your vegetable garden. Not only does this give the utilitarian garden a beautiful screen, but it also attracts bees and other would-be pollinators to your site for best fruit and vegetable production. The added bonus is a cache of plants you can easily harvest for arrangements, outside of your other more precious perennial beds. I use my outer bed as a holding bed too, a place to store divisions that I then dig up again for the plant swaps and sales of the future. The above image shows the very beneficial and native Helopsis helianthoides (Ox eye daisy) alongside some mature asparagus, daylilies, and Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ (catmint).