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Product Features
- Extensive plant database
- Personalised garden action diary
- 100s of practical projects
- Expert advice on your gardening problems
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The BBC's Gardeners' World Magazine Garden Manager has everything you need to manage, build and maintain your garden on one CD-ROM. Alan Titchmarsh heads up the team of experts and introduces the program by outlining the key features of the software--whether you wish to use it for reference, problem solving, garden planning or as a complete garden-care diary.
The garden diary is the main feature of this CD-ROM. It outlines gardening tasks by type of garden and plant on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, as well as providing hints and tips on getting the most out of your garden. Use the comprehensive plant database as the starting point for beginning your garden diary. Plants are categorised by both common and botanical name--click on the plant that interests you and a new screen presents varied information from flowering, height, care and when to plant. You can then add this plant to your garden and it becomes a listing in your garden diary. When this plant needs attention you'll be notified of what and when.
Looking for something new? Alan Titchmarsh presents a project each month, from cutting hedges to laying a patio or making hanging baskets for gorgeous colour and decorate around your home. After some inspiration? The "Gardens to Visit" section offers many suggestions of spectacular gardens you may wish to go see for yourself (the likes of Drummond Castle or the RHS Wisley Gardens in Surrey)--handy information such as location, opening times and a contact number are included. Want to prevent your beetroot from thinning out? Interested in making your own compost? The "How to..." section is only a click away, where Adam Pasco has all the answers you're looking for. There's also invaluable advice from Pippa Greenwood and Nigel Colborn, a useful "Contacts" section for storing details of garden centres and family and friends, plus an impressive search function covering every potential aspect of your garden. The Gardeners' World Magazine Garden Manager is your complete garden management tool and an extensive reference in one. --Melannie Pring
Manufacturer's Description
Alan Titchmarsh and the BBC Gardeners' World Magazine team, Adam Pascoe, Pippa Greenwood and Nigel Colborn, guide you through the many features of this CD-ROM.
The diary tells you exactly what you need to do in your garden every week. Advice can be personalised for your own plants and garden.
Find out exactly how to care for your garden with practical advice on hundreds of topics from Adam Pasco. You can also follow Alan Titchmarsh's monthly step-by-step projects covering everything from laying a patio to creating a pond.
Expert advice is available from Nigel Colborn and Pippa Greenwood, and is backed up by an illustrated database of over a thousand plants. You can even create new records for the plants in your garden.
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96 of 97 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
I love the concept of this software, all those plants I buy and put in and then forget all about the care, maintenance etc for each speficic plant. The software is well designed but poorly executed, the plants database is out of date and very restricted and worse still after spending 3hrs inputting my own personal plants to get a personalised care plan it produced a version all with the botanical names, no quick reference to the photo to help me identify the plant so the list is almost worthless, unless of course I first take a course in horticulture! But then I wouldn't need this software? Better intergration of data about the plants and the diary would be a real benefit as would a Web Update link for the software and plants database.
I would say this software is a great idea, quite well put together but definately lacking the final execution to make it really easy for us novices. I await an updated and hopefully imoroved version soon.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
I was very impressed with the write up of this product, and tried to load it on Windows XP. The intro ran great - good graphics etc.. and lots of functionality, but when I tried to actually go into the garden manager and use the database, XP kicks you out... then tried installing on Windows 2000 - got a bit further, but the search wouldn't work properly, some menus worked and some didn't. Finally got it working on Windows 98... it is obviously designed for 95 & 98 - so don't try and put it on anything else!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
This is the most user-unfriendly piece of software I have tried to use in years. It uses none of the standard Windows keystrokes, there is little or no contextual help, there is no simple connection between e.g. the name search facility, the plant database and your personal database. I got the software free with a magazine and it wasn't worth even THAT cost! AVOID THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE - a spreadsheet would be easier to use than this.
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