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Plan-A-Garden lets you create design plans for anything from a patio container garden to a welcoming front walk to your whole yard. Use your mouse to "drag-and-drop" hundreds of different plants to see how their colors and shapes work together. Add in dozens of structures like sheds, fences, gates, and even fountains and fire pits.

You can play around with fun elements like garden gnomes, basketball hoops, and swing sets, too. It's easy to experiment with pathways and lawn areas around all of these features.

Let us help you build your dream garden! The app fits every home situation. Select from a number of different settings, including entryways, front porches, back patios, and even backyard ponds. There are different housing types, too, ranging from urban, rural, and everything in between.

Not seeing what you are looking for? You can upload your own photo to play with. With more than 1, plants to choose from, the landscaping possibilities in our Plan-A-Garden app are practically endless. You can experiment with trees, shrubs, perennials, and more for your landscape, which you can filter by type, size, and sunlight needs. A search bar makes it easy to pinpoint a specific plant you might be looking for.

Many software packages allow you to scan a photo of your yard and drag-and-drop plants and hardscape features on a digital version of it. Other programs let you create an electronic base map and make infinite changes as you choose plants and features and move them around.

Look for a program that guides you through a survey of your property and lets you define and map the site. An accompanying tutorial helps with this process. The software you choose might also include a growth feature that enables you to see what plants look like as they mature, and a shadow caster that shows where tree and building shadows will fall any time of day throughout the year. Growth and shadow affect the placement of gardens, decks, and swimming pools. Three-dimensional viewing gives you a real-life view of the landscape and even takes you on a virtual tour.

A cost-estimating feature helps you plan and track costs at every stage. A sprinkler system installation feature simplifies this project by formulating a workable plan, complete with flow rates and a shopping list of pipes and emitters.

Other software features include plant encyclopedias with photos, botanical names, and plant-care guides; a search feature that helps you identify plants appropriate for your region's climate; demonstrations of common gardening and building tasks; and troubleshooting guides.

New software packages come out regularly and old versions get updated.