Computer program for gardens?
 

This question has probably been asked before, but I'm new to the newsgroup.
Is there a computer program in which one can set up a garden layout in the
program and identify plants by location? That is, I want a birds-eye view of
the garden, with each plant shown by an ID of some sort in its proper place.
The ID symbols would be listed elsewhere and the plant identified. I have
drawings of the garden, with the various plants identified in the beds, but
when I add new plants and transplant others, the drawings become hopelessly
muddled. Any advice would be most appreciated.

Harlan
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"HH" wrote in message
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This question has probably been asked before, but I'm new to the
newsgroup.
Is there a computer program in which one can set up a garden layout in the
program and identify plants by location? That is, I want a birds-eye view
of
the garden, with each plant shown by an ID of some sort in its proper
place.
The ID symbols would be listed elsewhere and the plant identified. I have
drawings of the garden, with the various plants identified in the beds,
but
when I add new plants and transplant others, the drawings become
hopelessly
muddled. Any advice would be most appreciated.

Harlan
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Go to Amazon.com and select "Software" than type in "gardens" or some other
identifier.
I have seen a number of these software packages touted there. Don't know how
good they are...but there you go.

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:20:05 GMT, "HH"
wrote:

This question has probably been asked before, but I'm new to the newsgroup.

Are you familiar with the Google facility to search groups?
Rec.gardens is archived there, and you can locate discussions of many
common topics.

Is there a computer program in which one can set up a garden layout in the
program and identify plants by location?

As you will read if you search the group, the most often given answer
is "no." Using a spreadsheet, or graph paper and a pencil seems to be
the way most organized gardeners go about keeping track of their
plants.

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"HH" wrote in message
news:U8Knd.363409$wV.230289@attbi_s54...
This question has probably been asked before, but I'm new to the
newsgroup.
Is there a computer program in which one can set up a garden layout in the
program and identify plants by location? That is, I want a birds-eye view
of
the garden, with each plant shown by an ID of some sort in its proper
place.

I've used one called "3D Landscape" by Sierra. It does that IIRC, and
lets you rotate the drawing in three dimensions. The plants "grow" and
can be shown by season.

That said, once I used it a couple of times for a major project, I went
back to 2D pencil on a CAD generated outline :-).

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Frogleg said:

As you will read if you search the group, the most often given answer
is "no." Using a spreadsheet, or graph paper and a pencil seems to be
the way most organized gardeners go about keeping track of their
plants.

I wouldn't bother to look for software that specific. Basically any draw
program on your computer will work.


Dave
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My needs would not be very complex. If I understand correctly, a "drawing
program" sounds like what I might need. I'm not familiar with drawing
programs. Can you suggest one or two. Many thanks.

Harlan
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| Frogleg said:
|
| As you will read if you search the group, the most often given answer
| is "no." Using a spreadsheet, or graph paper and a pencil seems to be
| the way most organized gardeners go about keeping track of their
| plants.
|
| I wouldn't bother to look for software that specific. Basically any draw
| program on your computer will work.
|
|
| Dave
| http://members.tripod.com/~VideoDave

I think they have typical landscape designer plant symbols in a plastic that you can
stick onto a special material page and then pick em up and move them around. I would
think that kind of thing would be great. Ingrid


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"HH" wrote in
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This question has probably been asked before, but I'm new to the
newsgroup. Is there a computer program in which one can set up a
garden layout in the program and identify plants by location? That is,
I want a birds-eye view of the garden, with each plant shown by an ID
of some sort in its proper place. The ID symbols would be listed
elsewhere and the plant identified. I have drawings of the garden,
with the various plants identified in the beds, but when I add new
plants and transplant others, the drawings become hopelessly muddled.
Any advice would be most appreciated.

Harlan
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If you are using a Mac there's an old program called Hypercard that might
do that, I forget. It's a generic program, not specific to gardens.
Otherwise, most draw programs can do what you want except maybe the
relational database part.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:00:29 GMT, "HH"
wrote:

My needs would not be very complex. If I understand correctly, a "drawing
program" sounds like what I might need. I'm not familiar with drawing
programs. Can you suggest one or two. Many thanks.

If you have a PC, one of the 'accessory' applications is 'Paint,'
which is *very* simple. You might try fooling around with it and see
if it will meet your needs. Paint Shop Pro is a full-featured graphics
program that's about $120 for the latest version.

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Frogleg wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:00:29 GMT, "HH"
wrote:

My needs would not be very complex. If I understand correctly, a "drawing
program" sounds like what I might need. I'm not familiar with drawing
programs. Can you suggest one or two. Many thanks.

If you have a PC, one of the 'accessory' applications is 'Paint,'
which is *very* simple. You might try fooling around with it and see
if it will meet your needs. Paint Shop Pro is a full-featured graphics
program that's about $120 for the latest version.

An excellent alternative that gives most of the functionality of
Photoshop (though it *is* different) is GIMP (the GNU Image
Manipulation Program), and it is free at www.gimp.org.

For Visio-type symbol-based diagrams, take a look at Dia at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/

There is an installer for Windoze. Unfortunately, I don't think
a garden symbol style sheet has been created yet -- though you can
make and install one yourself if so inclined (and can donate it to
the general library).

billo