Complete Gardens

Complete Gardens is a sophisticated web resource with advice on Gardening, Garden Planning and Plant Care

It includes:A Plant Finder Directory together with A Plant and Garden Directory, additional information on Pests, Diseases and Beneficial Wildlife, and A Free gardening discussion forum

Features

Plan your own beautiful garden with confidence
Fast, fun, easy and inspirational
Simply choose any colour, month, soil, aspect, height or name
Only the best plants to suit your requirements are displayed in seconds, effortlessly
In-depth planting advice, propagation, pest and diseases accompany each plant
Plant identifier saves hours of searching
Over 9,000 thousand high resolution photographs help identification and seasonal changes
Illustrated pruning advice shows you what, when and how
Create the garden of your dreams by having the confidence to know which plants will grow in your garden and where they will thrive best
Most of the plants seen in the RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Show Gardens 2007 are included on our latest CD-ROM

The Complete Gardens CD-ROM

The interactive Complete Gardens plant selector & pruning guide encyclopaedia CD-ROM helps you find plants for every aspect of your garden and season
An additional function of the CD-ROM is to find specialist plant suppliers via the Complete Gardens website.

Using the CD-ROM on your home computer you can:

Find plants quickly and easily by any combination of Flower / leaf colour, month or season, soil type. aspect, height, Latin or common name. The computer does the searching and within seconds displays the plants that best suits your requirements
If you're unsure of a plant name, you can find plants by simply searching by type (Acer, alpines, aquatics, bamboo, bulbs, cacti, ferns, grasses, heathers, herbs culinary - herbs flowering, iris, orchids indoor - orchids outdoor, perennials, rhododendron, roses, shrubs, flowering shrubs - shrubs with attractive foliage, evergreen shrubs, succulents, flowering trees- deciduous trees, evergreen trees - conifers, tulips, vegetables, weeds, wildflowers)
Or find by 'Use' (Container plants, climbers, flowering climbers, climbers with attractive foliage, architectural foliage - variegated leaves, exotic plants, fruit, hedging, house plants, plants to attract butterflies, scented plants, seasonal change, spring, summer, autumn, winter, small or tall, texture, topiary, unusual / rare plants etc.)
Plant aspect. Find plants for sun or shade, damp or dry, acid or alkaline soils
Plant description, plant care & images
Each plant is accompanied with a description, plant care advice plus stunning images to help identification and seasonal changes
You can see Attributes at a glance, Preferred aspect, preferred soil type, moisture level, period of interest, hardiness, growth rate, life cycle. leaf type, fragrance, primary & secondary flower and leaf colour, work involved, pruning period, planting period, after care, pH
Pruning advice. Each plant is accompanied with illustrated pruning advice

Project Specification - To develop a version of the Complete Gardens plant identifier and selector
to work on handheld computers (Pocket PCs)

Project aims and objectives

Adit was asked to develop a version for the handheld computer with two purposes:

To be able to identify plants by their characteristics

To be able to select plants from the database that will be suitable for the user's garden

Software Development

Data for the handheld version came from the existing Complete Gardens database of over 3,500 plants and associated photos
The Adit team designed a user-friendly interface which enabled users to walk around their garden or other setting and use the software on the move
Additional information about the project will be available soon. In the meantime you can preview the opening screens:

For further information on this project, please see our partner's website - Complete Gardens