Pollinator Patch Is Now Nationwide: All 50 States, Web, iPhone, and Android
The short version
- Pollinator Patch is live in all 50 states, on web, iPhone, and Android.
- Plant picks are matched to your ZIP and EPA Level III ecoregion, not just your state.
- Texas and California have the deepest plant data today. Other states are a working first pass that grows weekly.
- HOA-conscious design rules (under-18-inch borders, mounding shapes, clean edges) work the same everywhere.
- Free to try on the web. No signup wall.
Pollinator Patch now works in all 50 states, on the web, iPhone, and Android. Open it in a browser at app.thepollinatorpatchgarden.com, or download it from the App Store or Google Play. Same plant database. Same HOA-conscious design tools. Now wherever you live.
Key takeaways
- Pollinator Patch is live in all 50 states, on web, iPhone, and Android.
- Plant picks are matched to your ZIP and ecoregion, not just your state line.
- Texas and California have the deepest plant data right now. Other states are growing.
- HOA-conscious design tools work the same in every state.
- Free to try. No signup wall on the web.
Why ecoregion, not state
A native plant list for "Texas" is not very useful. The Edwards Plateau around San Antonio and the Gulf Coast Prairie around Houston share a state, but almost nothing else about how a front yard behaves. Soil, rainfall, freeze risk, and what survives without irrigation are all different.
Pollinator Patch sorts plants by ecoregion. You enter your ZIP. We look up the EPA Level III ecoregion that contains it, then surface plants that are native to that ecoregion. The same approach holds whether you are in the Sonoran Desert outside Phoenix, the Piedmont in Atlanta, or the Willamette Valley in Portland. State lines are administrative. Plants do not read them.
Where the data is deep, where it is thin
Texas and California are the most built-out states right now, with hundreds of plants per ecoregion, full Lepidoptera and native bee associations, and HOA law context for both. The rest of the country is a thinner first pass: enough to plan a front yard, with more plants, photos, and regional rebates landing every week.
If you live outside Texas or California, you will see fewer plants per category than a Texan does today. That is honest. We would rather ship a working state with 40 well-chosen natives than wait until every state has 400.
What stays the same in every state
The HOA-conscious design layer does not change with your ZIP. The same rules that keep a native front yard quiet in a Cedar Park HOA also work in a Charlotte one: clean borders, plants under 18 inches along the property line, mounding shapes over sprawlers, and six inches of mulch, gravel, or stone between the planting and the lawn. The plant list changes. The design language does not.
Ask Patch (the in-app assistant) also works in every state. Ask it whether your Bermuda-replacement plan fits your HOA's neat-and-orderly language, or whether a specific plant is on the ASPCA toxic list for dogs. Answers are the same quality everywhere. Plant availability is the part that varies.
Try it
Open the web app in any browser. No download, no signup wall. If you like what you see, the iPhone and Android apps add saved plans, photo uploads, and offline access to the same data.