Permapeople is a free, searchable plant database with thousands of community-maintained profiles — growing conditions, edibility, hardiness zones and companion relationships — wired straight into a garden planner. Look a plant up, then drop it into a design.
Use the plant search to filter by hardiness zone, soil, sunlight, edibility, height and more. Every plant has a detailed profile with the data you need to decide whether it fits your garden.
The database records which plants help or hinder each other, so you can plan companion planting and polycultures with confidence — see companion plant combinations.
The database isn't just reference — it powers the garden planner. Place any plant on a plan and it carries its growing info and companions with it, so research and design happen in one place.
The data is crowdsourced and openly licensed, and there's an API and developer docs if you want to build on it. See the open data garden planner for more.
Yes. Searching and using the plant database is completely free, and the data is openly licensed.
Thousands of community-maintained plant profiles, growing continuously as people add and improve entries.
Yes. The data is open, and there's a developer API — see the API and developer docs.