About Aproplant
Grow what belongs.
Aproplant is a deep plant database for homesteaders and garden designers who are building regenerative landscapes.
It helps you find the right plants for your specific place, understand what each one contributes, and assemble a palette you can trust.
Why we built it
Most plant references are written as if every garden were the same garden. They give you a hardiness zone, a sun icon, and a spacing number, then leave the hardest question unanswered: will this actually thrive where I am putting it?
Regenerative planting makes that question harder, not easier. A permaculture palette has to work as a system. Every plant is carrying a job, whether that is fixing nitrogen, feeding pollinators, holding a slope, or filling the shrub layer under a canopy that has not grown in yet. Choosing well means holding climate, function, and structure in mind all at once.
Aproplant exists to carry that load for you.
What makes it different
Things the catalog is built around.
A Climate Match score for your place
Aproplant infers your climate details from your location and scores every plant for how well it fits, live. Set your location once and see, at a glance, which plants actually belong on your site before you commit a season to finding out.
Filter by role, not just name
Search the catalog by forest garden layer, permaculture function, harvest timing, and plant needs like sun, water, and soil, so you assemble a palette by what each plant does, not just what it is called.
Every plant, richly documented
More than 1,400 species, enriched with permaculture function, forest garden layer, companion plants, hardiness, native range, and more.
Where we are headed
The database is just the foundation
The catalog is the foundation, not the finished product. Design tools and community features are on the horizon, built on the same principle that guides the database today: a plant recommendation is only as good as its fit to the place it is going.
Everything we add has to earn its place against that standard.
Have a question, a correction, or a plant we are missing?
We would like to hear about it. Reach out and we will get back to you.
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