Garden Designer is a computer plant encyclopedia and garden planner.

Using the encyclopedia you may select plants by various criteria (colour, flowering time, fragrance etc..) and place them in your garden plan. The flowering and foliage calendar also allows you to choose plants according to when they flower and bear leaves, and the colour of their flowers or leaves.

The encyclopedia contains information on over 1000 plants. Information is based on 25 parameters (such as form, size, colour) and. each plant is illustrated with at least one colour picture.

For each plant, up to 15 possible diseases that it might suffer from are catalogued.

For each plant there is a full care calendar, indicating what gardening tasks it requires and when. Some of these are even illustrated with animation sequences.

You can build up the design of your garden using the simple elements, (e.g. fences, paths, ponds), and then print it out as a record.

With help of this program you can also see what the change in flower and leaf colours will be for different months of year.

The program can also allow for garden lighting and illustrate how your garden will look at nightime.