Pollinator database

Find pollinator plants for your garden

Plan flowers across the seasons for honey bees and solitary wild bees. Compare flowering months, growing conditions, nectar and pollen ratings, photos and available plant references.

How the data is checked
Bloom planner
1307 matching plants

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This preference applies to both plant databases. The interface stays in English; English is used when a translated name is unavailable.

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Showing 1–36 of 1307 plants

Herbaceous plant 10 on this page

Shrub 7 on this page

Tree 19 on this page

Plan your planting

Choose pollinator plants for your site and flowering season

Compare flowering months

Use the flowering-month filter to build a shortlist. Open the Bloom planner to compare the recorded flowering periods and look for gaps in your planting plan.

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Match your growing conditions

Narrow the catalogue by light, soil moisture, soil texture and native region. Open a plant profile for its available growing information, photographs and source references.

Choose your site conditions

Understand nectar and pollen ratings

The original catalogue scale is Unknown (0), Low (1), Medium (2) and High (3). Compare nectar, pollen and suitability for each bee group. A source reference supports the information shown beside it.

How to use the pollinator database
Start with a planting idea

Pollinator planting recipes

Explore curated plant combinations for different sites and pollinator goals. Each recipe includes a flowering diagram, suggested planting zones and references for the selected plants.

Curated for temperate European gardens, with plant references and indicative flowering calendars.

A blue flower head of Centaurea cyanus.
Orikrin1998 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
12 species · Honey bees · spring to autumn

Top Honeybee Mix

Twelve plants selected from a nectar and pollen calendar for honey bees, combining spring blossom, summer flowers and mature autumn ivy across a spacious garden or farm edge.

Sunny flower patches · space for trees and managed edges

Catalogue flowering: Feb–Nov · timing varies by location. View plants, diagrams & sources