Re: Gardening CD's
Craig Hughes wrote:
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Yes! The CDROM version of Sunset Magazine's Western Garden Book is
great!
It seems to have all of the material that's in the book, with a handy
access engine. In addition to just looking things up by name, you can,
e.g., ask for fall-blooming purple perennials that don't need much
water.
It will pronounce flower names, possibly even correctly. At the York
convention I was with a botanist for a while. At one lunch stop he found
the water plant acorus, and explained that the invasive yellow
water-loving iris, whose vegetation resembles it, should be pronounced
soodaKORus rather than sooDACKerus since what he had found was ahKORus.
The CDROM said it ACKerus.
Other than that, the only negative about it I have seen is that it needs
to be in charge. If it is iconized and another program has the focus, it
will self destruct.
Some of the climate is western-US-specific, but I would want it even if
I lived in the East, unless it has an eastern equivalent.
Windows or Mac.
Your milage may vary.
Sunset Publishing
80 Willow Rd.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Gerry, usually not much of a salesman
