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April 23rd, 2010 admin No comments

Home Designer

Will better homes and gardens home designer work in New Zealand?

You can only buy it in Canada, USA, UK or Australia... But I live in New Zealand and I really want it but on Amazon.com it can only be shipped within the US. Will it work on my computer? Please help! Thanks!

for plants or building?

ok, about building. here is a nice article about free programs. three good ones are listed:

http://www.remodelingmyspace.com/ideablog/2007/11/comparison-of-top-3-free-home-remodeling-software/

if you can get someone to ship you the BHG, then it should work fine. if you have highspeed connection on your computer, then you can buy it/download directly without getting it through the mail. it looks like there are a couple versions available, some newer than others..cost around $20 which they are saying is at least 400 less than the disk (seems like it would pay to get highspeed at least for a month, LOL).

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=download+better+homes+and+garden&ei=utf-8&fr=b1ie7

here is a page of links about how to use and get remodeling software:

http://www.ehow.com/Search.aspx?s=remodel+software&Options=0

re plant planning. better homes and gardens is mainly a publication based on western USA gardening. like i mean garden planning software often has certain plants in it that you can arrange and or show at different ages and seasons. The list of plants in there will not be every plant in the world. each one has a certain list and some are a lot better than others..sometimes because of the number but and sometimes because of the kind. like the BBC has a program, but they are based in the UK of course so their list will be UK plants.

so if you end up shopping around keep that in mind. If you REALLY wanted to look around, then you will find a whole load of garden software. lots of it is free and some has totally better features than others. like maybe import a picture of your actual house. or import a special plant if their list does not have it. or, like i said, show the garden at different ages or seasons. Probably various other stuff that i did not mention due to i never used them.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=garden+planning+software&ei=utf-8&fr=b1ie7

whenever getting free software, be prepared for it not to work tho, like you were fearing. you might have to dump it and then tell your computer to go back to yesterday's/last week's settings.

some places offer free trials but a few are really free i think..prolly not the very best ones of course:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=b1ie7&p=free+garden+planning+software&rs=0&fr2=rs-top