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
Three things the catalog is built around.
Region-aware relevance
Aproplant infers your climate classification (the Köppen-Geiger system) from your location and adjusts which plant data is surfaced most prominently. Drought tolerance is a headline in a Mediterranean climate and background noise in the tropics.
A live Climate Match score
Set your location and every plant is rated against your actual site, so you can see at a glance how well it fits before you commit a season to finding out.
Depth, not just names
More than 1,400 species, enriched with permaculture function, forest garden layer, companion planting, hardiness, and native range.
Where we are headed
The database is 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. Get in touch