Geoff Hamilton's Designer 3D Garden CD-ROM (Geoff Hamilton's 3D Garden Designer)

Member Name: BizzyB

Product:	Geoff Hamilton's 3D Garden Designer
Date:	30/06/00 (181 review reads)
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Advantages: good plant encyclopedia section

Disadvantages: everything but the encyclopedia

From GSP, Geoff Hamilton's Designer 3D Garden CD-ROM is one of the many garden design programs on the market. I was very disappointed with it. I found it difficult to use even after reading the instructions several times. However many times I tried I never got anything on screen that remotely looked like my garden. It all felt very remote and removed from gardening. It inspired me to turn the computer off and return to the old fashioned method of going outside and planting plants were I thought they'd look okay. My one faint bit of praise for the CD-ROM is the plant encyclopedia it includes. This is very useful and easy to use. The plant database includes photographs, height & width projections, flowering info, soil preference and whether it is poisonous/edible/medicinal/cut flower etc. But for this feature I could have bought a more in-depth specialist plant encyclopedia on CD-ROM.

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