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What software do professionals use?

potsandpanspotsandpans Posts: 5
in Garden design
Just wondered what software is best to look at for professional garden design. 

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Vectorworks and/or SketchUp still seem to be the most used by my contacts, usually in combination. I'm not a professional garden designer but I know quite a few. It's worth looking into UnReal Engine, but that's just my opinion. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Some designers use the Shoot garden planner, which is been marketed quite heavily at designers. 
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    This doesn't answer your question exactly but my son in law is a professional garden designer who then implements the work for his clients including planting if they wish. He does the drawings the old fashioned way, by hand. When the job is completed he presents them with a water colour painting of their new garden. 

    As a matter of interest, he doesn't advertise, he goes by recommendations and his diary is full for 9 - 12 months in advance. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
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