Your Complete Landscape and Garden Designer (DVD-Rom)

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Product Features

• Get inspired by professionally designed gardens -- Choose from seasonal gardens or beautiful Feng Shui, rose, herb, perennial, Japanese, water gardens & more
• Photo Garden Designer imports a picture of your home and design a landscape around it
• Garden Encyclopedia is a comprehensive gardening reference for selecting and caring for your plants
• Ortho Problem Solver defends your beautiful garden from weeds, fungus, bugs, or other pests
• Helpful Landscape Design Guide helps create & maintain the garden you've always wanted

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007U9BTE
• Item model number: 10430
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 16, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,898 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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  #26 in	Software > Home & Hobbies > Gardening & Landscape
  #72 in	Software > Home & Hobbies > Home Design

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Your Complete Landscape and Garden Designer supplies eight essential tools for creating the landscape, garden, and deck of your dreams!

Personal Garden Planner
This scheduling tool helps you stay one step ahead of gardening chores. This indispensable program reminds you when it’s time to prune, plant bulbs, spread fertilizer, and so much more!

• Customize the schedule yourself, or rely on the automated reminders.
• Keep your garden in top condition.

LandDesigner 3D
Design your ultimate landscape and garden with a vast selection of over 4,600 plants plus more than 2,200 objects and materials. Then, examine your plan from every angle with a gorgeous, full-color 3D walkthrough.

• Walk and fly through in full color, photo-realistic 3D.
• Use the Shopping List to track costs as you design.
• Helpful Wizards aid in designing garden beds, sprinkler systems, and more.
• See how your design will grow through the seasons and over the years.
• Design Review checks your landscaping plan and provides helpful feedback.

Designer Garden Library
Get inspired by professionally designed gardens. Choose from seasonal gardens or beautiful feng shui, rose, herb, perennial, Japanese, water gardens, and more.

• Use predesigned gardens as inspiration or as the starting point for your design!
• Includes feng shui, Japanese, rose, perennial gardens, and much more.
• Choose gardens designed for your region.

Photo Garden Designer
This unique program allows you to import a picture of your home and design a landscape around it!

• Experimentation has never been easier or more fun.
• Import a photo of your home and yard.
• Choose from over 1,000 plants, trees, and shrubs.
• Walk or fly through your landscape in lush 3D.

Garden Encyclopedia
This program is the most comprehensive gardening reference tool available.

• This ingenious reference even includes a multimedia guide on selecting and caring for your plants.
• Features information and full-color photos of more than 3,000 plants.
• Browse for blooms that catch your eye, or search by flower color, climate zone, bloom season, and sun requirements.

Ortho Problem Solver
It can be so frustrating to have your beautiful garden fall prey to weeds, fungus, bugs, or other pests.

• Provides professional advice for maintaining a healthy garden.
• Expert tips on keeping your garden healthy year-round.
• You’re sure to find what ails your plants with nearly 700 problems and solutions.

Landscape Design Guide
This incredibly helpful program is your personal guide to creating and maintaining the garden you’ve always wanted.

• Expert advice from professional landscape designers.
• Provides professional answers on everything from choosing plants and container gardens to keeping your garden blooming!
• Get tips and tricks to keep your garden looking its best all year.

3D Deck
A comfortable and inviting deck can set the scene for so many wonderful moments. 3D Deck will show you how to design a single- or multi-level deck safely and easily.

• Learn from easy-to-follow videos and instructions from professionals.
• Add railings, stairs, hot tubs, patio furniture, lighting, and plants.
• Watch as your deck is built step-by-step in photo-realistic 3D.

Product Description

With Your Complete Landscape and Garden you have 8 essential tools for creating the landscape, garden and deck of your dreams! Design your ultimate landscape and garden with a vast selection of over 4,600 plants plus more than 2,200 objects and materials. Then, examine your plan from every angle with a gorgeous, full color 3D walkthrough. The scheduling tool helps you stay one step ahead of gardening chores. Build yourself a comfortable and inviting deck can set the scene for wonderful moments

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Difficult software to navigate, Don't waste your money, May 13, 2006

By	Donald C. Adams (Fort Mill, SC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchase this software at a retail store. Huge waste of money. I've had the software about a month. I've tried several times to work with it and I'm no computer dummy. It's difficult to manuver through the programs.

If you scan in photo of your house/yard to see what certain plants look like, you can't do it. It only gives you general plants just for looks. I wanted to build a planting bed and this program is not good for doing it.

So after failing to get actual plant with names from the first scenario I decided to go ahead and try the 3D thing. With this option you cannot scan in a photo of your home. You have to build one from ground up or you choose one of their stock photos. That really bites. I'm still haven't been able to even get the footprint of my house, because the closest one that resembles mine is not working for some reason. I've finally given up. I too wish I could get my money back. There is no way to contact the software company.

All in all - don't waste your money or your time. I'm back on the hunt for another software program.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Customer Support, April 22, 2006

By	Ellen - See all my reviews

I bought this software and was unable to load it on my computer. My computer met the minimum requirements, but after I came home and tried to load it on the computer it would not load. Come to find out, XP users may have difficulty.....WHAT? It says XP on the box. When I tried to get support, they have no phone number, no e-mail (fishy for a software company) and you have to write them a letter, which they never write back. DO NOT BUT ANYTHING FROM VALUSOFT!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS PRODUCT IS NOT FOR A NOVICE LANDSCAPER, March 16, 2006

By	Barbara E. Smith - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The description led me to believe that I could use this as a non-landscape expert. I am a novice and this is not a product for a novice - either from a computer saavy standpoint or a landscaping standpoint. I cannot use this software other than the encylopedia and I would not have purchased this just for that. I'm dissapointed and wish I could get my money back.