A Gateway to a Better Garden

There are plenty of computer programs that can assist you in choosing the right plans for your home or even assist you in designing the home yourself but there are fewer to help you with the curb appeal of your home. That's where the Better Homes and Gardens Landscape and Deck Designer comes in.

The New York Times has a thorough review of the product and they state that although the computer limits the emotional connection to gardening, it does provide a spatial template for a job too large and expensive to trust to trial and error.