Looking for practical Garden Software tools for Garden Design and Landscape professionals?
If you run your own garden design business, then you might find tools like the ones shown below to be useful. If not, then they could help you decide what it is you are looking for.
They are examples of 4 different product types, some useful for home and business, others would probably be more for business because of cost.
Complete Gardens Plant Finder (An excellent garden plant finder and pruning guide with a wealth of information)
Deeproot Plant Base (An excellent garden plant encyclopedia that where you can edit all the info and add your own plant information.
Garden Management System (Low cost garden management and maintenance)
Garden Design Software - CS Garden Designer (Industry Standard AutoCAD engine)
At some point, the plan is to update this with a look at some other garden software products, but for now, the point I'm trying to get across is that there are very different types of tools and prices, so the big thing is to work out what it is you want to achieve and go from there.
See the discussion on landscaping software tools.
Complete Gardens Plant Finder is a UK product with extensive information on around 3500 plants for the UK. With multiple filter options, you can search on a various criteria including soil conditions, season of interest, botanical or common name to name just four.
Complete Gardens software is developed and maintained by Neil Bromhall and a team of specialist authors and contributors.
Deeproot Plant Base is a fully editable Plant Encyclopedia database with over 10,600 plants and is very suitable for horticultural professionals and students.
Deeproot Plant Base Plant Encyclopedia is developed and produced in the UK by Geoff Looker.
CS Garden Designer is high end software developed by a UK company for landscapers and garden designers.
Based on the industry standard AutoCAD engine, it allows users to produce professional quality results for all levels of business.
CS Garden Designer is developed and maintained by Calnan Scott Design Limited, UK.
Garden Management System is a very low cost garden management and record maintenance tool produced by a Canadian company - costing about the same as a good sized shrub- if it helps you save one shrub a year, it will have paid for itself.
Garden Management System is designed and maintained by HMK Associates, Canada.
Read our discussion notes on choosing the right garden design software for you.
Garden software overview