Work on your yard on the rainiest of days, or plant a garden you never have to weed. Create a 3-D rendering of your dream garden, scan a photograph of your home and lay out flowers and trees around it, or just research the best plants and gardening techniques for your geographical area. Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 makes all of this and more possible.
The Total 3D Landscape process is relatively simple. First, lay out a plot of land including a home floor plan, lot shape, lawns, garage, and gardens; hills, depressions, streams, and ponds go into the mix as well. Then it's time to add plant life: browse a catalog of more than 4,000 cultivable plants to find your favorites, or use the detailed search engine to match what you've got in mind. If you want to find flowers of a particular color for a specific soil type, and then define the types of insects these flowers will attract, this program can help.
Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 favors detail-oriented users, gardeners who want to nail down every possible element of their landscape plan before going outside and getting to work. The program's interface is somewhat unfriendly and doesn't offer many shortcuts for repetitive tasks. What it does provide, though, is plenty of gardening information--on seasonal planting, irrigation, garden design, climate, plant types, and everything else a home landscaper can imagine. The program will even calculate a budget that estimates the cost of the garden you're planning, one that's flexible enough to include such elements as the cost of labor if you aren't planning to do all the heavy lifting yourself.
As if that weren't enough, Total 3D Landscape Deluxe 3.0 comes with three other applications: Sunset Garden Problem Solver, Black and Decker Landscape Construction and Design, and The Better Homes and Gardens Guide to Gardening. This trio of helpful resources will fill out the encyclopedia of gardening information available to users. With these additional sources, you can extend your gardening expertise indefinitely, turning to this CD-ROM library again and again. --Alyx Dellamonica
$29.99
