Complete LandDesigner 3D Design Collection 7.0

Once the new design is set up, the shopping-list feature is tremendously useful, and the Personal Garden Planner will keep track of maintenance tasks. The online Garden Encyclopedia and Ortho Home Gardener's Problem Solver answer questions quickly and make selection even easier, brilliantly using audio and video to instruct and inspire. Every program in the package is simple and fun to use (though it's expected that you know your way around a garden before you start), and the graphics in the design software are stunningly sharp (though users of slower computers will find the animations a bit sluggish). Caveat emptor: you might find it tempting to stay indoors with Complete LandDesigner 3D Design Collection 7.0. --Rob Lightner

Amazon.com Product Description
Complete LandDesigner 3D is a suite of eight products to help you design the landscape, garden, and deck of your dreams. It includes LandDesigner 3D, 3D Deck, Photo Garden Designer, Ortho Problem Solver, Personal Garden Planner, Garden Encyclopedia, Designer Garden Library, and Landscape DesignGuide.

LandDesigner 3D offers a library of 4,600 plants and more than 2,200 objects and materials to use in your designs. Design wizards help you create virtual garden beds, sprinkler systems, and more. You can walk or fly through your designs and view them from every angle, and see how your landscape will grow and change in appearance through the seasons. 3D Deck shows you how to create a single- or multi-level deck safely. Learn from videos and get advice from professionals. And watch as your deck renders in realistic step-by-step 3-D. Photo Garden Designer allows you to import a photo of your own home and design around it, experimenting with over 1,000 plants, trees, and shrubs. Ortho Problem Solver is a resource for keeping your plants healthy and free from weeds, funguses, bugs, and pests. It has information on more than 700 common problems.

Personal Garden Planner is a scheduling tool that reminds you when it'stime to prune, plant bulbs, spread fertilizer, and more. The GardenEncyclopedia is a reference guide with full-color photos and entries onover 3,000 plants, and features a multimedia guide on selecting and caring for your plants. Designer Garden Library lets you use predesigned gardensfor inspiration, including feng shui, rose, herb, Japanese, and othergardens. Landscape Design Guide gives you expert advice and tips on all thedetails of keeping a great garden, from choosing appropriate plants to whatcontainers are best for specific plants.

I will never buy another product from Sierra Home again.


What a waste of time.   January 22, 2002
Philip Lange (North Carolina)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful

Too many glitches and bugs to talk about. Their website was of no help and after waiting for phone tech support, (my nickel) for a half hour, they couldnt resolve any of the problems. They said they would give me my money back, but how about the three days I spent screwing around with this piece of trash?

One particular problem is that saving a file overwrites the old one without removing any of the deleted changes. The result is a uselss mess. Another is that for no apparent reason it does not choose to save some items, so when the file is brought back up all the work has to be done over again. Of course if you expect to print what you see on the screen you are dreaming.

Break out the graph paper and pencil. You will do the job in half the time. Take the money and buy some plants.