Re: Garden Design Software ?


I've never really looked at any gardening software inparticular, but 
I'll comment anyway.  (Consider that a disclaimer).  What your friend 
needs to do is sit down and consider what he wants out of his software.

Any software requires certain inputs, and yields certain outputs.  The 
inputs should generally be about the same for each of the software 
packages, and I would guess these would include things such as 
enviromental conditions, square footage of garden, shape of garden, etc.  
He may want to take a few minutes to see if there is a big difference 
between the inputs allowed for each package.  One that requires he input 
what species he'd like to plant is more likely to be expensive, and 
require more work on his part, but will (should) also yield a much more 
detailed final plan.

More important is the outputs, IMO.  How are the results displayed?  How 
does he want to have the results displayed?

Of course of paramount importance in the ease of use, and that, I'm 
afraid, can only come from actually using the program.  Since I've 
already admitted I've never used any of this software, I'm ill equipped 
to vote one over the other.  Incidently, what I am afraid of is people 
who eat too many beans.  I'm also afraid that I badly butchered the 
punctuation on my last post.

Anyway, hopefully someone here can offer better information on the 
ease-of-use (user friendly-ness) of some of these titles.

Thanks for flying!
Glider --zone 5
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