15 October 2026
BeeGuide is live
BeeGuide is open. Anyone can use it, right now, for free, at buzzingbloomz.com.
Up there is the video tour. If you'd rather read than watch, here's what it does.
What you put in
Your ZIP code. That's the only thing it really needs.
If you have a soil meter, you can also tell it your pH, how wet your dirt is, and how much sun the spot gets. Those three numbers make the plan a lot more exact. If you don't have a meter, you pick the closest description instead and it still works.
Then you say how big your bed is.
What you get back
The bees that actually live near you. Not bees in general. It looks up which species have really been recorded close to your ZIP code.
Plants those bees have been seen visiting. From science records, not from somebody's opinion about what pollinators like.
A bed that's been checked against your yard. Right winter, right rainfall, right soil. It throws out anything that would die where you live, and tells you what it threw out and why.
A planting calendar. Which month to plant each one, worked out from ten years of frost dates for your area, and which months your bed will have flowers.
Where to buy them. This is the part I care about most.
The part about nurseries
BeeGuide sends you to a real nursery near you before it ever sends you to a website.
Two nurseries have signed up as partners so far. Nobody Nursery in Des Moines shares what they have in stock, so the app can say "this one is on the bench right now." Green Knight in Kirkland takes calls — ring Scott with your list and he'll tell you what he's got, or suggest something close.
If neither has it, the app shows other nurseries near you that list the plant. Ordering seed online is the last thing it suggests, not the first.
A few things I want to be clear about, because I think they matter:
- It's free. There are no ads.
- The nurseries pay me nothing. No commission, no fee, ever.
- I don't store anything about you. If you email an order to a nursery, it goes
from your email straight to them. It never touches my server.
It works anywhere in the US
Right now 68 places are already loaded, so a plan there shows up straight away. If you put in a ZIP code nobody has tried yet, BeeGuide goes and gathers the bee records for your area, which takes about half a minute, and then that place is loaded for the next person too.
So the map fills itself in. Every garden that gets planned makes the next one faster.
Try it
Put your ZIP code in and see which bees live on your street. Even if you never plant anything, that part is worth seeing.
And if you do plant a bed — tell me what showed up. That's the part I actually want to hear about.