If you may consider small no fuss shrubs in your plan, I can recommend bluebeard/caryopteris. It’s been really trouble free for me, establishes quickly and bees and assorted others love it. It blooms a little later in the season too, which is helpful. I am partial to yellow-leaved varietals - it really makes it a season-long interest plant, and looks great when the small blue flowers start showing up. I think there are a few of the golden ones, and tend to have something with “sunshine” in the name. Mine is “Sunshine Blue” and I got it from, yes, Lowes 
I absolutely love it, but I’d check if it performs well in your climate.
Another one that fills up a bit of space but doesn’t get too tall is gaura / indian feather /wand flower etc. It’s also very popular with bees and it’s particularly amusing to watch how low those skinny stems sink when a rotund bumblebee docks at a flower. Doesn’t seem to faze them.
I like a lot of plants on your list, and grow a few, still need to up my game with annuals.
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