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Mid-Atlantic Gardening
vladpup

Anyone found better gardening software?

vladpup
19 years ago

G'Day!

- So far, the best garden design utility i've found is the BBC Virtual Garden. What gardening software do you use and what do you think about it?

- Up side: BBC VG is FREE (a BIG plus in my book!), looks beautiful, has a great 3-D walk-through feature, and is an easy pick-and-place (and move) design.

- Down Side: Limited variety of plants and stuff (and they haven't added any since they put it up over a year ago), the Rotate Object function is very finicky, and there is a low limit to how many total objects you can have in a garden; so, if a big garden, you have to do each plot as a seperate garden.

- It don't have enough plants to really be useful as a map, but it is a very fun design toy, especially during the slow winter season.

- i look forward to reading you thoughts on this or other garden software. Hapy gardening,

-vlad

Here is a link that might be useful: BBC Virtual Garden FREE software

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