At last you can turn your garden into a luxury outdoor living space from the comfort of your living room. We love the way this comprehensive design, landscaping and planting software gives you the tools to create the garden of your dreams - and then walk around it in virtual 3D.
You can try out new decking, shrubs, trees, shingle areas or even a hot-tub, and select plants from the wide-ranging botanical encyclopaedia included. The real beauty is that if you find your plants are in the wrong place or your water feature is just too small, then major landscape changes are only a few mouse clicks away.
The breadth of features means that Ideal Home Landscape Design offers plenty of choice so you experiment to your hearts content and have great fun learning how to re-model the sample gardens. So, why not use the samples to play with and learn from, then use the 'how to' guide to put in the dimensions of your own garden on a blank canvas and start from scratch. You can be as outrageous or as subtle as you like and you can pick up ideas and inspiration for your own garden along the way.
Comprehensive tutorials guide you step-by-step from measuring up your home plot to viewing your fully landscaped and planted garden design in full colour 3D. We can't think of a better way to take the backache out of garden design.
Features
Plant
Care calendar and demos
View growth and seasonal changes
Over 200 landscape objects
Incorporate paths and driveways
"Walk" through tools to move through your design in 3D
3D TrueViewâ„¢ to see your new garden in lifelike detail
Benefits
The Perfect Plants Browse a catalogue of
more than 7,500 plants to find the perfect choice for your
garden, including:
Annuals
Perennials
Shrubs
Fruit Trees
Plant Care
Count on the Plant Encyclopaedia and Plant Care Calendar to help
your landscape flourish. Find the tools you need to protect and
maintain your landscape. Features include:
Plant Diseases
Growth Zones
Pruning
Watch Your Landscape Grow
Set the age of each plant to represent seedling, or mature
growth. Then grow your whole landscape at once, to see how it
will look in 5 or even 10 years time.
Terrain
Surround your home with the depth and beauty of natural slopes
and rises, sculptured walkways, retaining walls and more.
Incorporate functional items such as paths and driveways.
Create raised flowerbeds, retaining walls or other decorative
features.
Incorporate irrigation into your landscape plan.
Deck Builder
Use the convenient Deck Builder tool to generate structurally
sound, fully-framed decks that complement your home.
Multi-level decks
Porches
Diagonal Decking
Balconies
Different Views
See your landscape in changing light - day or night
View your garden at different times of the year, to see how
your landscape will change throughout the seasons
Use the exclusive 2D Designer's View to work with accurate
top-down representations of plants and flowers
Plant Care
Count on the Plant Encyclopaedia and Plant Care Calendar to help
your landscape flourish. Find the tools you need to protect and
maintain your landscape. Features include:
