Landscaper's Companion - Plant & Gardening Guide app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 8544 ratings )

Utilities Reference
Developer: Stevenson Software, LLC

9.99 USD

Current version: 3.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 01 Oct 2009
App size: 37.33 Mb

The most comprehensive plant guide on iPhone!

Enjoyed by thousands of gardeners and landscape professionals world-wide, Landscapers Companion is the #1 reference guide to all plants including trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials. Containing information on over 26,000 plants and 21,000 pictures, Landscapers Companion makes an excellent resource for the casual gardener, professional landscaper, aspiring botanist, or anyone looking for a simple, easy to use plant guide.

Landscapers Companion has been highly rated:

* "Top 25 Reference App" in USA - March 2012
* "Top 10 Reference App" in Canada - April 2010
* "Whats Hot" app in the UK Store - April 2010
* Featured on the UK app store front page - March 2010

"The search feature is nicely designed. You can enter cucurbita pepo or zucchini or summer squash and the software will find the same vegetable." - Bob Tedeschi, New York Times

"Landscapers Companion comes out ahead due to its rich search features, custom offline content and nurturing instructions." - Brodie Beta, The Globe and Mail

"Just wanted to let u know this app is great. I have been looking for something like this for a while." - Daren, Deerwood Landscapes

"Gardeners who want a content-heavy app need to look no further than the Landscapers Companion, which houses a large collection of data that spans 17 categories of plants" - Lauren Fairbanks, SheKnows.com

"Your app is great!!! As someone who works as a landscaper and nursery retailer/buyer this is most helpful for my customers." - Jessica, NM

Reference Guide Features:

▪ Plant Database with over 26,000 plants in 17 categories covering North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia
▪ General plant information such as USDA zone, sun exposure, water usage, growth rate, bloom times, deer resistance, and mature height and width
▪ Over 21,000 high quality images from around the web
▪ Extensive Search Capabilities: search for plants by Common or Scientific Name, Sun Exposure, USDA Zone, Water requirements, Color, Bloom Time, Deer Resistance, Height, and Width
▪ Email Detailed Plant Information
▪ Keep a List of Your Favorite Plants and Email the List

Not only is Landscapers Companion a great reference guide to plants, the Pro upgrade also makes a great tool for professional landscapers or serious gardeners. Pro upgrade features:

▪ Manage Multiple Plant Lists with Projects
▪ Add Your Own Plants
▪ Add Your Own Plant Pictures
▪ Keep Notes on Your Plants or Garden

Please note: the Pro upgrade is a separate purchase within the app.

Still more questions? No problem. Heres more information:

The 26,000 plants are spread throughout these 17 categories:

1) Annuals
2) Bulbs
3) Cacti
4) Conifers
5) Flowering and Fruit Trees
6) Ground Covers
7) Herbs
8) House Plants
9) Ornamental Grasses
10) Palms
11) Perennials
12) Roses
13) Shade Trees
14) Shrubs
15) Vegetables, Fruits, Berries
16) Water Plants
17) Ferns

Sorry - we dont have any tropicals or orchids at this time.

Browse over 26,000 different plants by their scientific name and common names. View information such as water usage, size, and sun requirements. Most have a short description of the plant along with cultivation information, common uses, and any problems they may have. Most plants include beautiful pictures.

Additional plants and images are added periodically for FREE!

Like us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/landscaperscompanion) and follow us on Twitter at @landscaperscomp

Please take a moment to leave a review with your positive feedback as well as constructive criticism. Please note: were unable to respond to your comments directly - please email [email protected] if you have problems with the app.

Please Note: Internet access is required to download plant images.

Pros and cons of Landscaper's Companion - Plant & Gardening Guide app for iPhone and iPad

Landscaper's Companion - Plant & Gardening Guide app good for

Température tolerances and Way of planting those trees arent in the App. Pictures could be a bit bigger.

Good information for the beginning gardener. Like the fact that it doesnt require wifi connection so you can take it with you to a garden store. Pictures are nice (some could be sharper). Disappointed that it wasnt as comprehensive as the name implies - especially considering the $9.99 price tag though obviously a lot of work went into it. It is nicely set up otherwise and easy to navigate. Maybe add a section for bog plants. Hard to imagine a water plant section without hornwort, water hyacinths, duckweed etc and other very basic aquatic ponding essentials. Hopefully additional free updates will soften this criticism.

Im a young landscaper and sometimes I have a hard time telling weeds from ground cover or herbs etc in the gardens I work in. A cool idea for this app would be to include a section for weeds and instead of growing tips, put tips on how to kill the weeds and keep them away! 5 stars if you work with my idea...

4 times out of 5 the app crashes when I try to view pictures of plants! Other than that, great app!

Its a fantastic app but they still have plants to add in and sometimes crashes but it has great information.

Very handy app. I would love to see a category on weeds also. Some categories need more pics. Needs more descriptive details.

Some bad moments

Its obvious that a lot of work went into this app, but the creators have dropped the ball in certain aspects. Aside from poor spelling mistakes ( in Chinese wisteria) , too many plants lack descriptions, dimensions (both height and width), and some pics have no common name listed! A lot of plants are duplicated with the info being the same but the colour is different. This makes scrolling very tedious. I think this could be an excellent app if these changes are made and I may change my rating according to improvements. At this point $10 is too expensive, and better spent on a landscape book with pics instead.

I thought that for $10 I would get tips on how to care for the plants, possible recipes for herbs, etc. Overall the app is pretty basic with information you can get from wiki with little added value. Dissapointing after reading the hype.

before we had all the pictures no need for conections and now needs to download all back again this is really not an upgrade! i didnt want to download the upgrade but i hit the button by error and regret it!!

App used to work great. After update pictures wont come up. Hoping they fix this problem!!!

I like the app, but get annoyed with the crashes. Also , some of the plant pics are wrong.

Way to limited to the point that it is useless as a working tool. Bad photos as well. Do not buy

Write review