Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: ValuSoft
EAN: 0755142104306
Product Features: Get inspired by professionally designed gardens -- Choose from seasonal gardens or beautiful Feng Shui, rose, herb, perennial, Japanese, water gardens & more
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Valusoft
Manufacturer: Valusoft
Model: 10430
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Valusoft
Product Release Date: 2005-03-15
Studio: Valusoft

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

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 Rating:
Review Summary: Very mediocre
Review: Very mediocre. I was unable to do significant topographic elevation changes - had to buy a different program and trash this one. Very simple tasks it handled. I admit I got frustrated and gave up - it might do what I needed it to, but I gave up trying.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Don't even bother
Review: As soon as I tried to load this software, my security software popped up with a message that the program contained adware that could collect browsing history and send it out to a remote server. Maybe that's why the price was so low. ($19.95 from the publisher) I'll look for something else.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Worth the money
Review: Suprisingly good for such low-cost software. Great graphics. Don't purchase if you don't have a DVD drive/player on your computer, it will not work in regular CD drives. Pretty easy to use with a little practice, but was disappointed we could not get it to incorporate a large berm at the back of our property. Program would only allow creating a free-form slope from side to side, not front to back. Also, major feature that I would like is ability to "copy and paste" plants or objects. Takes a lot of time to select and insert the right species/size/color and is a REAL PAIN if you have mass plantings like we do and have to do it over and over.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Outstanding value
Review: Keep in mind this software costs less than $20. That said, I am very satisfied. One of my favorite features is the shadow caster. Once I had my house and fences in place this feature proved very helpful in determining how much sunlight each garden area will get at different times of the year. If you are looking for easy to use software to design gardens and landscape without spending much money, I highly recommend this product. I run XP and keep it current in regards to updates and had no problems installing and running the software. It worked equally well on XP 64-bit that I have on a second machine.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Bad decision
Review: It didn't install correctly. I finally installed it peacemeal. I couldn't get an acceptable design out of it. Total waste of money.

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