My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.

Any suggestions (apart from move)

Andrew

Andrew wrote:

My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.
Any suggestions (apart from move)

All the landscape designers I work with use autocad. The software
license is around £3k ... I know. Sorry.

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Andrew wrote:

My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.
Any suggestions (apart from move)

All the landscape designers I work with use autocad. The software
license is around £3k ... I know. Sorry.

Andrew wrote:
Oh !!!!

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Andrew wrote:

My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can
use to plan the layout and that takes the ground level into
consideration.
Any suggestions (apart from move)

All the landscape designers I work with use autocad. The software
license is around £3k ... I know. Sorry.

"Dulux!" I say to that. Bits of graph paper are best, as you don't
lose the earlier ideas. Cost a bit less, too. The Rolls-Royce is
squared tracing paper, as it allows superimposition. Just as no
gardening book is a substitute for the _learned_ imaginative sympathy
with plants people misguidedly call "green fingers", so no computer
program can replace your knowledge of the site and visions of what it
could look like in five, ten, twenty years.

And don't even joke about moving: you're very lucky, because a
hillside is the most exciting site you can have.

--
Mike.

On 10/11/05 19:29, in article ,
"Andrew" wrote:

My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.

Any suggestions (apart from move)

Don't move, you're going to have a very interesting garden - think
waterfalls, a pond etc. But over the years, the general consensus here
seems to be that this gardening software lark can't be beaten by a stub of
pencil and the back of an envelope. ;-) Easier to carry into the garden,
for a start!
If it's a new garden to you, think of how you will use it, maybe wait a year
to do anything because the use you make of it may develop over time. Think
of children playing, if pertinent to you, think of clotheslines, think of
bits to sit in to enjoy the mid day sun or the evening sun etc.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

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"Andrew" wrote:

My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.

Any suggestions (apart from move)

Don't move, you're going to have a very interesting garden - think
waterfalls, a pond etc.

/snip/

Think "Wine cellar"!

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Rusty
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My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.

Any suggestions (apart from move)

Andrew
There is no software that will substitute for making a 3D model.
Not that difficult and much more fun.
http://www.uktvstylegardens.co.uk/in...ID/1307/.shtml

Rupert wrote:
There is no software that will substitute for making a 3D model.
Not that difficult and much more fun.

Too true. At our courses we teach 3D modeling with play dough. Not only
it gives you endless options, it brings out your inner child.

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On 10/11/05 19:29, in article ,
"Andrew" wrote:

My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.

Any suggestions (apart from move)

Don't move, you're going to have a very interesting garden - think
waterfalls, a pond etc.

/snip/

Think "Wine cellar"!

Water into wine? You're good but you're not that good!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

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Think "Wine cellar"!

Water into wine? You're good but you're not that good!

I'll polish me halo a bit then.

(At least *I* can walk on water without sinking...)

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horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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On 11/11/05 11:17, in article
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Think "Wine cellar"!

Water into wine? You're good but you're not that good!

I'll polish me halo a bit then.

(At least *I* can walk on water without sinking...)

Believe me, we're close..... ;-(
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

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My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.

You'll find books in the library which describe how to measure the
drop (s) with simple materials like planks, stakes and string. Map them
onto paper the way hill contours apear on a large-scale map. Or, buy
in some sand (which you're probably going to use anyway on paths or
slabs or whatever) make yourself an outdoor sandpit. and play sand
modelling.

Since you sound a bit doubtful about hillgardening, I'm guessing
you're pretty new to gardens. Start visiting other hillside gardens to
get ideas and see what a great asset they are. A great source of local
gardens to visit, is the Yellow Book (published annually in the new
year, costs about £6). It lists hundreds of private and public Gardens
Open for Charity. Available in booksellers everywhere or from website.

Janet

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My garden is on a hillside and im looking for software which I can use to
plan the layout and that takes the ground level into consideration.


Found you this :~)) Looks really interesting. has laods of ideas:
http://www.the-landscape-design-site...edhillside.htm
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Jenny

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There's not much scope in our garden which has a slope of about
1:1,000,000 :-)

Chinese in Beijing carried in enough rock and earth to create high
hilly garden landscapes. Can you locate a molehill, to make a start?

Janet

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There's not much scope in our garden which has a slope of about
1:1,000,000 :-)

Chinese in Beijing carried in enough rock and earth to create high
hilly garden landscapes. Can you locate a molehill, to make a start?

I know a man who can...

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Rusty
horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/