Use a live spreadsheet to arrange your plants from shortest to tallest, find everything that blooms in summer, or pull up every shade-tolerant shrub without ever leaving your drawing.
Find the best plant for every condition.
The Planting Design section is essentially a living spreadsheet of the plants you’ve added to the project.
It shows key traits like height, width, sun, water, flower color and more – that you can sort and filter in real time.
When you’re mid drawing and hit a problem spot, you don’t have to stop, open another window, or dig through your notes.
Your plants are right there, organized so you can make a strong decision.
Sort by height to layer plants front to back. Filter by sun and water to solve a difficult spot. Or pull up everything blooming in fall when a space needs late season interest.
Keep it open alongside your CAD program, drafting program, or drawing and use it to answer questions as they come up.
Which plant works best here?
Is this plant too tall for the walkway?
Does anything here handle deep shade and wet soil?
Do I have something blooming in late summer in every space?
You know plants – the planting design spreadsheet helps you sort through them fast when a specific spot needs a specific answer.
Sort plants from shortest to tallest, filter by sun and water requirements, pull everything with winter interest.
Plant types, size, leaf color, flower color and season – it’s all there when you need it.
Work area by area – not all at once.
As you build out your project, group your plants into the spaces of the overall design.
Considering a few plants for the back fence? Assign them there.
Have a few options for the front patio?
Create an Area for it and drop those plants in.
Every area of the design ends up with its own running list of candidates.
When you’re ready to start drawing, filter the planting design spreadsheet down to a single Area.
Why sort through 50 plants when you only need to look at 12?
When you’re focused on one space, you can actually think clearly about it.
The right plants become obvious, the gaps are easier to spot, and you can move through the drafting process faster.
“With its plant-search, organizational, report-generating capabilities, and many other productivity tools, PlantMaster is the fastest, most efficient way I have found to build and curate impressive plant presentations. Clients, given a link to their online plant palettes, can not only view several of each plant’s photos, but also interactively learn about its characteristics, habit, and culture–a much-loved feature for my clients.
PlantMaster has appreciably improved my overall design process, from the first inklings of the design itself on to the final-plan presentation to the client.
Linda Estrin | Linda Estrin Garden Design
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