I bought this based on the reviews on Amazon but I'm not too pleased with it. Too many things you can't do (make garden paths, show a curved lot). And the things you can do often seem useless like fancy backdrops such as mountains or the ocean. I also thought there would be a lot of templates and things you could just drop into your plan.

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No - just a couple of flower beds and they aren't flexible in how they can be done. The 'Landscape Design Center' is just a bunch of text - tips and the like and they're not even very good tips. (And if I wanted to just READ I would have bought a book, not a computer program.) I spent a lot of time working on this but it's just not very good.

Download Air Gun Ballistic Program. I bought this based on the reviews on Amazon but I'm not too pleased with it. Too many things you can't do (make garden paths, show a curved lot). And the things you can do often seem useless like fancy backdrops such as mountains or the ocean. I also thought there would be a lot of templates and things you could just drop into your plan. No - just a couple of flower beds and they aren't flexible in how they can be done.

The 'Landscape Design Center' is just a bunch of text - tips and the like and they're not even very good tips. (And if I wanted to just READ I would have bought a book, not a computer program.) I spent a lot of time working on this but it's just not very good. I have tried several consumer landscape design programs and this one is better than most in some areas, notably ease of building houses and decks. But if you are looking for something for designing plantings, this is not it. Its plant selections was woefully inadequate. Most of the plants I needed (which are very common in the Southern California area) were not available, or in very limited varieties.

I ended up having to import most of my plants from pictures and that works O.K., but it's a lot of work and a pain to find a good picture of the plant I need. I imagine the plant selection would be just as dire in other parts of the country, because this program has by far the fewest number of plants available. All in all This program appears to be the best of what is available for landscaping and deck design. I found it easy to learn and implement except for some roof and elevation problems (which were unable to be resolved adequately). For Californians and many western region locales without gable or hip roofs it can be difficult to design your exact building, but this is the landscape and deck portion and not the entire building program. It does allow you to quickly design most landscape and deck designs possible and the 3D is drawn quickly and the detail is excellent.