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Lowes makes a Landscape & Garden Planner available online to give avid gardeners and landscape enthusiasts a helping hand with ideas and information.

After a long registration process in which you can subscribe to Lowes newsletters, you finally get to the interactive Landscape and Garden Planner....Tutorial or Planner give you some choices to match your skill level and desire for adventure!

Size, zone map, design of your hardscapes are the basic choices, with objects such as patio, flower beds, furniture, as well as planters, ponds and pool round out your design. The Lowes Landscape & Garden Planner seems to work better on a PC than on a Mac... :-(

This online version of landscape planner software gives you a good introduction to landscape design.  You might want to move up to a personal computer software product to get more detailed...but some like to spend that amount of time wiggling their toes in the dirt :-) 

Search the Internet for an ever-growing world of gardening resources, including landscape design software. Internet providers offer everything you need, from expert advice to garden planning options, and of course, products to help you with general vegetable or flower gardening, or specialized urban farming.

It's easy to order plants and products for delivery to your doorstep, or find the information you need at the click of a button or a few squiggles of the mouse.  Landscape design software can help you design simple landscapes, container gardens, or robust gardens.  

Better Homes and Gardens Online offers a free internet-based design program that lets visitors design flower beds and landscape plans. Plan-a-Garden includes a library of trees, shrubs, and structures and can be arranged on a computer screen, then saved for future reference or printed out.