ABOUT
Finding Nectar is a small, pesticide-free plant nursery and garden center in Arvada, Colorado. We grow flowering plants that are good to look at and genuinely useful to the bees, butterflies, moths, bats and other pollinators that pass through.
Our story
Finding Nectar began in 2021, when plantsman Brad Kuhn turned a small basement space into a nursery. The reason was straightforward: pollinator numbers were falling, and he wanted to do something about it that people could take home and put in the ground.
That is still the whole idea. We focus on Colorado native plants because they do two jobs at once — they make a landscape better, and they feed and shelter the pollinators already living here.
Why pollinators
Pollinators are not a niche concern. They are the reason most flowering plants exist at all.
- Nearly 1,000 bee species are native to Colorado — around 150 of them in the Denver area alone.
- 90% of flowering plants depend on pollinators to reproduce: bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, birds and bats, each with its own part to play.
- Honeybee numbers have fallen by nearly 60% over the past 80 years.
Honeybees have a particular hold on us. As they work a flower for nectar they pick up and carry pollen, and the plant gets fertilized in the bargain. It is one of the tidiest arrangements in nature, and it is under real strain.
What we grow, and why it is planned that way
We stock plants that bloom across the whole season rather than all at once, so there is nectar available from early spring through fall instead of one glut and then nothing. That works as well on a farm or a commercial property as it does in a backyard.
Take a look at our Colorado native perennials, native shrubs and native grasses — or browse the whole nursery.
Come and see us
Finding Nectar Nursery
15550 Highway 72, Arvada, CO 80007
(720) 667-7854
We are about twenty-five minutes from Denver, Golden and Boulder. Our pumpkin patch runs through the fall, and current opening hours are listed there.