wrote:
Hi Ted,
Unfortunately there are a lot of bad CD's out there on the market.
Unfortunately most of the gardening software comes from abroad either
from the USA or Australia. They are franchised in the UK and the
companies fool the British public by using much loved or respected TV
personalities on the covers. On sites such as Amazon look in software
and type in Garden and you'll see reviews from people. These reviews
are a good indication of which are good and which are bad products. The
reviews are well worth looking at.


If your eyesight's getting bad like mine or there's too much stuff on
one page like the Review Centre's pages I've found the page;

http://www.reviewcentre.com/products2105.html


But beware. Sadly when bad reviews appear the Companies just put a new
cover on the front. If it wasn't damaging the software industry so
much I would find it amusing at the number of times the much loved
Geoff Hamilton's image is being used on what appears to be much the
same if not the same CD . Although Geoff passed away in 1996 you'll be
amazed that he's going to be appearing on yet another 3D Garden Design
CD dated 2005.

Isn't that just going to be a burial plot with an arm sticking out,
holding the CD box ?

Seriously, I tried one of the Geoff Hamilton gardening design programs
and I was not that impressed. I did state this in my review at Amazon
as I had parted with hard-earned cash but they cut that part out of the
review.

This either shows the age of the software or that Geoff was not
involved with the making of the CD.

There is a danger with American produced software that it misses the
mark with regards to climatic zones and plant types.

There is another good site for reading reviews for all sorts of
products not only garden software
it's called The Review Centre. www.reviewcentre.com
I hope this helps people decide the Good from the Bad.
Best wishes
Neil


Let's see what we get in our Christams stockings. I've got my fingers
crossed for Eva Longoria but I think it's going to be yet another CD!



Richard.


--
We trade our health in search of wealth,
We scrimp and toil and save;
We trade our wealth in search of health,
But only find the grave.