Product Description

The interactive, PC and MAC compatible Complete Gardens plant selector and pruning guide encyclopaedia CD-ROM makes selecting plants for your needs and finding information fast, easy and fun. Search plants for every aspect of your garden and season. Simply select any combination of flower / leaf colour, month, aspect, soil type, height or name and within seconds the CD-ROM displays images of the plants to suit your requirements and garden conditions. The planting tips and illustrated pruning advises in layman's terms how to look after them.
Gardening is a growing investment yet plants need the right conditions and pruning to thrive and look their best. The interactive Complete Gardens CD-ROM provides this information by helping you select the right plants for your garden and just as importantly save you time and money by excluding unsuitable plants that won't survive. The software has been revised to keep pace with climate changes, as new varieties plus 246 drought tolerant plants have now been included.

The CD-ROM not only saves hours of searching, you can add your own printable notes and plant lists with images and even link to specialist plant suppliers' websites. The CD-ROM does not replace books but rather it has additional useful functions. Easy to use, this new revised version of the Top 5 Star rated British plant resource is ideal for garden enthusiasts whatever their level of expertise. The specially selected plants cover a vast range of UK garden plants from alpines, aquatics, perennials, roses, grasses, fruit and vegetables to shrubs and trees. Easy access to a wealth of gardening knowledge can give you the confidence to create beautiful gardens. Adding enjoyment and probably value to your property.
7,200 stunning photographs to help identification and seasonal change.

The benefits:

• Select plants for any season and aspect, for the front and back of the border, sun or shade, damp or dry, plants to suit a small garden, low maintenance, plants to attract butterflies, shrubs with autumn colours plus many more.
• Plan a colourful garden. The Calendar plant lists show the plants you have and remind you when they need pruning.
• Keep your garden records.
• Add printable notes to plants.
• Be safe. If you have children you can simply select to exclude poisonous plants.
• Latin names and Botanical terminology explained in layman's terms.
• Inspirational ideas and colourful plant combinations. A selection of established garden styles provides a useful aid to creating the garden style of your choice. Take inspiration form the experts.
• Garden styles have the plants identified as you move the cursor over the picture. Clicking on any plant displays the plant description plus attributes such as, period of interest, flower / leaf colour, interest, leaf type, height, soil type, aspect, plant care, pests, diseases, propagation and pruning times.
• 100% British made.
• Link to Website news and Plant Finder Directory
• No registration or downloading required. The CD-ROM auto-starts.
• Instruction movie helps you get started.
• Free helpline.
• Upgradeable versions available.

Magazine Reviews:
“This CD-ROM is the next best thing to having your own private gardener” ‘Chris Beardshaw Daily Mail’

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #765 in Software
• Brand: Complete Gardens CD-ROM Ltd
• Released on: 2009-03-01
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 7.48" h x 5.12" w x .59" l,

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Customer Reviews

This is a wiked CD-Rom
Excellent value

This is a stunningly good value quality product
Much easier and quicker to use than flicking through books. All the plant information is easy to find and well written with useful pruning illustrations and advice for novices.
I particularly like the fact that I can make my own plant list and add notes to plants and print them with the images.
Easy to navigate even for the complete computer or garden novice.
I found it so useful and such fun to play with. Slightly more expensive than most of the other garden software yet if you want practical useful information about UK garden plants and care, then this garden software is definately the one to go for.

What a smashing and easy to use gardening tool
I'm delighted with this smashing and easy to use, plant finder and pruning advise CD-ROM. I'm not a computer wiz so I was a bit nervous if I could use it or not. I did phone for some advise and they could not have been more helpful. It's very easy to find plants for different areas of my garden and now that I know which plants will grow in my garden and when they are in flower. height etc. I'm looking forward to my next visit to the Garden Centre (I know that you can find suppliers using the 'where to Buy' function on the CD-ROM but I might try that later.
I can feel my fingers turning green already

Beautiful & well worth getting
I've just bought a new computer with Vista with a 19" flat screen and the images on the Complete Garden software looked really beautiful.
The CD-ROM runs very fast. No problems installing it as it auto-loads and finding the plant information is easy and realy fun being able to find plants so quickly.
I've joined their Complete Gardens free garden forum and have posted a few quations and had some really informative replies from greenfingered people. It's great and well worth having a look.