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![Better Homes and Gardens Landscaping and Deck Designer 7.0 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZVQG5PLoL._SL160_.jpg)
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 Decent but not great, 2008-10-09
I have mixed feelings about this software. On one hand, it's a bunch of fun to play around with your landscaping and this software does a great job of allowing you to put virtually anything in your yard and then view it in either 2D or 3D. There's a ton of plants and yard "stuff" to use. The interface is fairly easy to understand and use. Where I lose some interest is, I found the feature to duplicate your house and yard fairly difficult. The concept of putting a picture in and the program using that didn't work well. That part of the software was pretty disappointing for me as you really want to see your actual house in the plans.
 Better than most, 2008-10-09
The application has just about everything I was looking for and more. The views are great! Comparing to other systems, construct of the plans is much easier. My only concern is that to date, I haven't been able to figure out how to add my own plant library items.
Too few plants for the dry Southwest landscape, 2008-07-27
Simi-permanent water shortages are forcing a rapid change in residential landscape throughout the Southwestern United States. This kind of software is exactly what many of us non-professional could benefit from if it listed a wide variety of beautiful drought-tolerant plants to select from. Unfortunately, neither this nor any other software that I have seen incorporates a large and varied Southwest-friendly plant list. Excluding trees and succulents, I could only find 15 plants in this software that are Southwest-friendly. Too bad, there are thousands of beautiful plants that do wonderfully in this environment; for example, there are about 200 species from the sage family alone that are beautiful yet require very little water. Perhaps what's needed is a special 'southwest' version of the software.
One other thing, it is hard to create landscape elements that are not on the same physical plain as others; what I mean is, it's hard to create a landscape in this software that is other then flat. Creating a large raise plant, for example, was hard for us to do.
 Better than nothing!, 2008-04-12
It was very helpful in planning my landscaping. Getting my home roof correct was tricky and my property has some slope in the front and I had a very hard time making it right. I planted 17 different varities of plants and I found about half of them in their plant directory.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Good consumer product to get rough landscape ideas, 2008-02-17
The software was not what I expected. The 3D tools and views are incredible and can give the average person some ideas on how their landscape would look with some new shrubs, trees, deck, etc. However, I needed to use this software to draw 2D sketches for landscape companies. I freelance with small landscape businesses to draw 2D sketches of residential and commercial landscaping proposals. In the 2D view of this software, you are limited to just a handful of shapes to represent trees and shrubs. Such as a small shrub is a small circle and a larger tree is represented by just a larger circle. If I wanted to do that I could have bought a regular drawing program. You will not have any views of the thousands of trees and shrubs available in the program unless you view it in a 3D virtual tour type view. Really not the right fit for me since I need to provide a sheet of paper to my clients who then send it to their customers.
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