LANDSCAPING SOFTWARE

Al Carrell: Landscaping your new house can be very exciting. But it can also be a little bit frustrating. Now there's some computer packages that you can use that will take a lot of that frustration out. On this one right here, what you need to do is to put your house on the lot, and then make sure it's facing in the right direction. We've got it almost right. I'm going to have to move this around just a little bit. There we go. I think that's got it perfectly. Now, you can start putting plants in the yard, whatever you want. Trees, shrubs, planting areas. And if you put a tree in place and you decide, hey, I think that's not quite right, well, you can move it. No problem at all. Now as you pick out your different plants, you can refer to an index they have that shows you a picture of the plant and also gives you all the details about how it grows and what it does. And it will tell you whether or not it's going to be good in your particular area. But even so, go in and consult with your nursery dealer, so that he can tell you for sure that it's going to be a good plant for your area. And as you go along and you plant these things, this package automatically makes out a list of everything that you're going to purchase. It's really neat to be able to print that out and go in and buy everything in one trip. This can also show you a shade pattern, so you know where the shade is going to go and where it's going to be sunny. Not only will it show you a shade pattern for one day, it can cover the entire year, so that you know what the shade pattern's are going to be summer, winter, fall or whenever. Now, one of the problems people have with landscaping is, they come in and they put something in place there, let's say a shrub, and it looks real good the first year, and it looks even better the second year, it's nice and lush. On the fifth year though, it's outgrown the area, and it overshadows your house, and with trees this can be really bad. There is a way to find out what happens in the future because we have a growth over time feature. We just punch in however many years we want, and then we'll see how big the tree does get. And that can let you plan ahead. One of the things I really like about this particular package, you can get a 3-D view of your house and lawn, and you can actually walk around the house and see what it looks like from other angles. It really is a neat way for you to visualize what your landscape is going to be like.

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Episode 34 1996 - 97 Season

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