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For beekeepers and lavender growers
Keep your bees fed all season.
Map what blooms near your hives month by month. Spot the hungry gaps, fill them with the right plants, and set up a safe, easy-to-work apiary.
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What blooms near your hives?
Tap every plant that grows within easy flying distance. Bees range widely, so count neighbors’ fields and roadsides too.
Add or adjust a plant
Your forage calendar
Plants chosen
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forage sources
Season covered
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of March – October
Gaps to fill
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stretches with no bloom
2+ plants in bloom
Only 1 plant
Nothing in bloom (dearth)
Bees mostly inside
Bloom windows are broad, typical Great Lakes-region estimates. Weather, variety and site shift them by weeks.
Hive placement checklist
Is your apiary site ready?
Check off each point as you walk your site. Your answers are saved on this device.
Bee-safe spraying
Protect pollinators when you spray
This is general guidance, not a product recommendation. Always follow the label.
- Spray at dusk, when bees have stopped foraging and gone home.
- Never spray plants in bloom — including flowering weeds under your crop. Mow them first.
- Read and follow the label. It is the law. Look for bee and pollinator warnings.
- Stop drift. Spray only on calm days, away from hives and water sources.
- Tell nearby beekeepers before you spray, so they can plan.
- Start with the least harsh fix. Many problems have a cultural answer first.
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Lavender acreage helper
Plants per acre
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Plants in total
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Typical bloom window
We don’t estimate honey yields. They depend on weather, colony strength and all the other forage around your hives.
Lavender and bees
A long bloom that bees visit all day.
Planting English lavender and lavandin together stretches bloom from early to late summer — often right when spring flowers fade.
Stagger your cultivars
English lavender opens first in early summer. Lavandin follows in mid to late summer. Together they cover weeks, not days.
Plan for the dearth
Many areas have a thin stretch in mid to late summer. Buckwheat, borage, anise hyssop and lavandin can help bridge it.
Feed wild pollinators too
Bumblebees, butterflies and native bees use the same flowers. A mix of bloom times helps all of them.
Beekeeper questions
What is a nectar dearth?
A dearth is a stretch when little is blooming. Bees may eat into stores, rob weaker hives or get defensive. Knowing when yours happens lets you plant for it, and watch your hives more closely.
Can lavender make a honey crop?
Bees work lavender eagerly. How much honey comes from it depends on your acreage, weather, colony strength and everything else in bloom nearby, so we do not estimate yields.
How accurate are the bloom windows?
They are broad, typical ranges for the Great Lakes region. A warm spring can move bloom forward by weeks, and a cool one can delay it. Use “Add or adjust a plant” to match what you see.
Is it safe to keep hives next to a lavender field?
Many growers do. Keep flight paths away from pickers and walkways, and work out a spray plan that protects bees before you place hives.
Which lavender is best for pollinators?
Browse our pollinator favorites, or ask the Lavender Grower assistant for picks that suit your zone.
Plant a summer of forage.
Mix early English lavender with later lavandin for a long, bee-friendly bloom.
