Description
The Bee Smart™ Pollinator Gardener is your comprehensive guide to selecting plants for pollinators specific to your area. Never get caught wondering what plants to buy again!With the Bee Smart™ Pollinator Gardener’s easy user interface, browse through a database of nearly 1,000 native plants. Filter your plants by what pollinators you want to attract, light and soil requirements, bloom color, and plant type.
This is an excellent plant reference to attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles, bats, and other pollinators to the garden, farm, school and every landscape.
Features include:
• Nearly 1,000 pollinator friendly plants native to the United States.
• Customizable plant lists based on your preferences including pollinator type, flower color, soil type, sunlight and plant type.
• Regionally specific plant lists based on the geographical and ecological attributes of your location (your ecoregion) just by entering your zip code!
• A wide variety of perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, and vines to browse.
• An easy to use search option for querying on common or botanical plant names.
• Colorful plant images.
• Once you’ve created and edited your customized plant list, simply bring it to a nursery or garden center – never forget what to buy or plant again!
• Create a note easily using the free Catch app and add text, pictures and voice recordings to your plant notes.
• Snap a picture of a new plant, your location is automatically recorded and you can add a reminder to pick a plant at the nursery.
• Use Catch to begin a garden journal, connect, and share with other garden enthusiasts.
Bee Smart™ Pollinator Gardener app is brought to you by the Pollinator Partnership and Catch.
Pollinator Partnership is the largest organization working to protect the health of managed and native pollinating animals vital to our North American ecosystems and agriculture.
Catch.com creates mobile and web-based applications that make it simple to capture, organize and retrieve the ideas, experiences and data that are important to you. Your information is always accessible and always current, whether you use a mobile smartphone, a tablet or the web, because Catch lives in the cloud.
Kim
Jul 31, 2012 10:12:41 PM
Good information. Great easy guide.
Clarity
May 31, 2012 3:52:36 PM
Too few plants All excited then let down....love the concept and ease of use
Sunny
May 20, 2012 5:20:19 PM
Best gardening app! This app is great because it tells you what plants are native to your zip code and they bring pollinators to your garden. Also the filter tool is an awesome way to find exactly the kind of earth friendly plant your looking for!
Jamie
Apr 8, 2012 6:44:55 AM
Love it! Absolutely ecstatic that this app exists. Thank you for making this available!!
Shelley
Mar 4, 2012 10:17:42 PM
Great planning tool. For pollinator gardens.
Allison
Feb 23, 2012 4:29:03 AM
Save the bees Love it, great guide for kids to use as well. Thanks
Andrew
Feb 12, 2012 9:37:27 PM
Good stuff, room for improvement No real flaws, good single function app. Would be worth 5 stars if it linked to more info on the plant species..even wikipedia.
InsectAR
Jan 23, 2012 4:57:26 AM
Both Informative and Practical The navigation and simplicity of this app is much better than other comparable apps making it really functional and useful in knowing what plants in your region will attract pollinators. The integration with the free Catch note app is especially useful and is worth the extra time to sign up as it really complements the use of Bee Smart. Would like to see maybe an option to learn more about the main pollinators with maybe a link to Wikipedia or a link to a database or RSS feed showing the status or current environmental threats to the pollinators like the current bee crisis. Overall a great app.
Lisa
Jan 14, 2012 2:36:48 AM
Nice look & easy to use. No info on where to purchase native plants. Force closes when opening Ecoregions.
thomtrance
Jan 6, 2012 9:21:58 AM
Excellent data concise and well organized! love it.