Hand spork

Hand spork for easy digging and weeding

I’m delighted to see the hand spork designed by Robert Todd mentioned in Best Buy in the BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.

It’s a quality garden tool that will last for years. It’s specially designed teeth are  perfect for digging or loosening soil, weeding in the borders or gravel path, plus digging holes for planting.

It’s head and shoulders above the rest and will last for years.

Unbiased garden software reviews. How to weed out the bad titles

There are an increasing number of garden related software products and garden advice websites on the market – but how can you tell which ones are the ones to choose?

Some are genuine updated and improved titles. However, some are just repackaged and sold to the unsuspecting buyer. This is a disgrace and shold be exposed to prevent this hapening.

How can you find out which are good products and which are the bad ones to avoid?

The answer is:- Find independant, unbiased reviews.

 The Review Centre has reviews on all sorts of products, sent in by genuine users. To find garden software simply search for ‘garden software’ and a list of Titles will apear. You can read about independent garden software reviews and add your own review, if you’ve tried and tested any of the products.

Amazon has product reviews fromcustomers who have bought the Titles. To see the Complete Gardens reviews see garden advice software on Amazon

Garden Magazines and Computer / IT Magazines also do product reviews.

There all sorts of garden design software, landscape design, plant database, plant encyclopaedia to be found to suit your needs. Weed out the bad ones by doing a bit of research before hand and you’ll save yourself some money.

RHS Wisley stock the latest Complete Gardens multi list Plant Finder & Pruning guide CD-ROM.

Multi list, plant Finder and pruning guide Encuclopaedia 3,500 plants, 9,000 images CD-ROM. PC & MAC compatible

The latest Complete Gardens multi lists 3,500 plant 9,000 photographs garden software CD-ROM is aimed more for the professional gardener, Garden Designer, Garden Design Student or Landscaper who require the ability to produce multiple plant lists plus add individual notes which can be printed out with images and given out to staff or Clients.
 
The Plant Finder search function allows the user to select plants for every aspect of a garden and season need effortlessly.
Simply choose any combination of colour, height, soil type, aspect, month / season or name and the UK Plant Databse will select and display the plants to suit the search requirements within seconds.
Each plant is accompanied with in-depth plant care and illustraed pruning advice plus 9,000 high quality photographs to help plant identification and seasonal changes.
The Calendar Plant Lists shows which plants the Client / garden has, plus when and how to prune those individual plants.
The Multi plant finder and pruning guide is designed as a simple UK garden maintenance plant database and aid garden planning as well as Garden Design by finding the right plants for the right place and know how to look after the plants.
PC & MAC compatible.

Complete Gardens Plant Selector & Pruning Guide 2,700 plants, 7,200 photographs

Plant Finder and pruning guide CD-ROM 2,700 UK plant database. PC & MAC compatible

Chris Beardshaw 2,700 UK garden plant selection.
7,200 photographs to help plant identification and seasonal changes
x2 plant lists. Plants I have and Plants I want
Add notes and print with images
See which plants you have in any month.
Reminder when and how to prune your plants
Intended for Home Use and a useful gift

Chris Beardshaw quotes “This CD-ROM is the next best thing to having your own private gardener”
Bar Code number 5060110080014.

Complete Gardens Plant Selector & Pruning guide Encyclopaedia 3,500 plants with 9,000 images CD-ROM. PC & MAC compatible

Plant Finder and pruning guide encyclopaedia 3,500 UK garden plant CD-ROM. PC & MAC compatible

Plant Selector & Pruning guide encyclopaedia 3,500 plants with 9,000 images CD-ROM. PC & MAC compatible
3,500 UK garden plant selection
9,000 photographs to help plant identification and seasonal changes
x2 plant lists. Plants I have and Plants I want
Add notes and print with images
See which plants you have in any month.
Reminder when and how to prune your plants
Intended for Home Use where the user wants maximum number of plants
Bar code 5060110080021

Complete Garden Multi list Plant Finder & Pruning Guide Encyclopaedia 3,500 plants 9,000 photographs CD-ROM

Complete Garden Multi list Plant Finder and pruning guide encyclopaedia CD-ROM. PC & MAC compatible

Multi list Plant Finder & Pruning Guide Encyclopaedia 3,500 plants 9,000 photographs CD-ROM.

PC & MAC compatible
3,500 UK garden plant selection
9,000 photographs to help plant identification and seasonal changes
Multi plant lists. Make multiple plant lists. Print lists with images and notes
Add individual notes to lists and print with images
Record Client’s individal plant list.
Reminder which plant to prune, when and advice.
Intended for Garden Designers, garden Design Students and Lanscapers wanting to make and print lists and notes for their staff and Clients.

All three Complete Gardens CD-ROm Titles are available in the RHS Wisley Shop or on the RHS website.

Produced by Complete Gardens CD-ROM Ltd.
Based in Oxford

01865 512561
www.complete-gardens.co.uk

Launching our latest garden software at Chelsea Flower Show 2008

We had a successful Chelsea Flower Show last year and hope to do even better this year with our 3,500 garden plant selector and pruning guide encyclopaedia, multi plant list version CD-ROM. PC & MAC compatible.

 

The online garden web sites continue to grow. The major sites being the RHS and BBC though one major criticism I’ve heard is they are very slow.

That’s not surprising considering the amount of data and images to be uploaded.

 

I’m delighted that another advantage of our plant selector & pruning guide CD-ROM is it’s not influenced by download time and will therefore find and display the plants and data you want within a few seconds.

 

Although our first garden software was initially designed for the garden novice wanting to find plants to suit their garden, as we’ve increased the plant database we’ve attracted the interest from garden Designers and Garden Design students who need to find suitable plants for a wide range of garden conditions and garden styles.

The Complete gardens CD-ROM does this for them, effortlessly.

By popular request we’ve made a multi plant list version, which allows the user to make as many plant lists with relevant notes as they require. The user can print the lists with images for each of their clients.

Home users can make multi lists for the various parts of their garden.

 

 

We will be launching the 3,500 plant multi plant list version at Chelsea Flower Show 20^th May – 24^th May on stand EA 34.

I’d be delighted to demonstrate how our PC & MAC compatible garden software works.

SPORK. Innovative British design garden tool

Innovative garden tool.

The spork. Half spade half fork the spork is an ingenious two in one garden tool.

Designed by Oxford engineer Robert Todd.

This light weight but very tough blade can be used for general digging. The 75cm long wooden handle is suitable for both men and women and make light work of digging.

The blade has an ingenious cutting edge for cutting through roots, slicing turf, trims lawn and border edges and slices through heavy clay. 

The blade has gaps which reduces the weight, also the surface area is less and doesn’t become so heavily clogged in heavy soils making digging a laborious back-breaking chore. The blade can riddle soils like a fork.

The triangular pointed teeth can make easy work of weeds in a gravel path as well as raking for seed drills.

This nifty garden tool can be used for digging in the garden as well as making light work of digging and planting vegetables in the allotment.

The SPORK blade is easily sharpened to keep a true edge throughout its long working life.

Robert has also produced the SPRAKE and smaller hand working garden tools in much the same ingenious design.