Even toddlers appreciate plants. Right, a family member is entranced by Salvia sclarea, Clary sage.

Wrote Connie Krochmal, journalist and horticulturist, "This easy-to-use software takes the guesswork out of gardening." "Everything you possibly need to know about choosing, growing and selecting plants for cottage (flower) gardens is found here. Some software may try our patience, but happily that isn't the case with ECG-AS V 1.3.1 for PC."	It's not what the English plant that makes their gardens so distinctive, it's where and how they plant. Any patch of soil won't remain bare for long. Blank walls are strung with wire and every imaginable vine or shrub trained to grow up them. Fruit trees and hedges serve as living trellises for clematis, roses and other climbers. Plants are grown over, under, around and through each other, creeping out and softening the hard lines of walls and steps.	BOTANICAL: Campanula punctata 'Cherry bells' PRONOUNCED: kam-PAN-yoo-luh punk-TAH-tah COMMON: Speckled bellflower BLOOMS: Late June to late July. COLORS: Rosy pink, white or purple HEIGHT: 1 ft. - 14" x indefinite spread LIGHT: Full sun to partial shade ZONE: 4 - 9 COMMENTS: This vigorous Japanese cultivar has 2-inch-long, bell-shaped flowers edged and tipped with white. It produces a continuous profusion of blooms in early to midsummer if deadheaded, and is called 'Speckled bellflower' because the blooms are often speckled with red. Once established, it spreads aggressive by underground rhizomes and will steal space from less aggressive perennials. When the clump becomes larger than desired, dig it up and divide, which will probably be necessary every third or fourth year. Provide a fertile moist soil. There are many varieties available. Some are: C. punctata 'Flashing Lights' has variegated green and white foliage set with large pendulous, lilac bell flowers. C. punctata 'Pantaloons' is an unusual variety with very unique blooms. The light purple tubular bells are double! One bell seems to be growing out of another. C. punctata 'Rubra' is an older variety with large, dusty rose tubular bell flowers.
---- Some software allows users to import house photographs into the software, then select plant icons to position around the photo to help visualize the finished effect. Another type of software 'grows' the plants over 3 or 4 years providing a mature view of the plants and trees. Such software is often up for auction because once used, they are of no further value! ----However, if your goal is to transform your property into a tapestry of color with an abundance of plantings, it is important to find plants which will thrive in your unique garden conditions. To find those plants and learn how to care for them is the goal of our software. -----Gardening is a lifetime project not to be undertaken lightly. ECG-AS is an interactive gardening encyclopedia on CD-ROM, designed to teach and inspire. Gardening customers tell us they refer to their CD-ROM on a regular basis for ideas and inspiration when planning new flowerbeds, for the more we learn about gardening the more we recognize how little we know. It is a continual learning process. We hope you decide to join our every increasing group of satisfied customers.