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From the developer: "I created this app to give you information about your yards. I have been gardening nearly my entire life since my Grandfather gave me a package of tomato seeds and my Nana taught me about bearded iris. I want to combine my knowledge of horticulture with my love of weather to give you weekly information about what to do in your yard, that week.
If the weather is going to affect the garden, you will hear about it here first."
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If you have a smart phone, it may soon be one of your favorite landscape tools! With the advancements of technology, portable devices can now provide science-based horticulture information in the palm of your hand. You can download apps to help you design rain gardens, diagnose plant problems, search for plants based on a specific need, or just simply find out more about a plant you’re eyeing at the garden center.
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Janna Beckerman spotted the rusty hollyhock leaves immediately after stopping in front of the biennial on her way through the blooming West Lafayette community vegetable and flower garden. Instead of pulling out a pair of garden gloves to inspect the leaves or reaching for the closest fungicide, the Purdue University plant pathologist and professor grabbed her iPhone from a pocket as she knelt beside the plant. Delete the scoop?
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A short while ago, Petr Mores wrote to me about his Inner Garden app. Petr is an artist who loves nature, and developed this Android app together with his brother Pavel. Inner Garden now has a home at Leafport. Delete the scoop?
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Since this Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer, you might be dusting off those gardening gloves to spruce up your home. But if you're looking for an easy way to keep plants alive this year, check out these three products featured in the video above that make it quite simple. Delete the scoop?
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With the holiday weekend coming up and the weather (hopefully?) taking a turn for the better, many of us may start feeling a bit green-fingered and turn our attentions to a spot of gardening.But one New York-based tech start-up is hoping that worrying about seasons will be a thing of the past when it comes to growing your own plants, fruit and veg.Bitponics claims to be "your personal gardening assistant". The system it sells is a cloud-based hydroponics gardening manager.
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May 24, 11:24 PM
With all of these apps and futuristic technologies out there, we can only hope that one day we'll get those robots to clean our houses for us! Green + Technology = the future. 
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May 28, 10:48 PM
I'd like a robotic lawn mower that would continually trim my meandering lawn, would know when it was too wet to mow, and wouldn't "walk away"!
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In an effort to reach younger people, the garden is promoting a comprehensive smart phone app called “GardenGuide,” which provides audio narration about certain gardens, GPS location software to pinpoint individual locations, and information about more than 2.5 million plants. The garden insist the app “is the first of its kind to be developed in the United States with the ability to tap into a botanic garden’s plant collections database.” Delete the scoop?
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I’m just amazed by all the applications out there for Smartphones. I think it’s up to a gazillion now. Ranging in price from free on up, it’s a smorgasbord of choices that will keep you busy for hours. I’ll admit right now, I downloaded a couple while working on this article.
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This summer marks a major milestone for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: 25 years as one of the country’s premiere public sculpture parks. The New Media Initiatives department’s contribution to the celebration comes in the form of a brand new website for the garden, a fully responsive web app that has been an exciting challenge to build. Delete the scoop?
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Whether you’re a veteran, green-thumbed gardening enthusiast or are getting your hands dirty for the first time, the iPhone is a tool that you may find is surprisingly useful in your quest to cultivate a luscious, thriving oasis of plant life. These ten iPhone apps provide the perfect mix for successfully planting a year-round, evergreen garden. Delete the scoop?
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Now that warm weather has found its way to us, you may be prepping your ground to get your garden started. Well, no more do you have to keep guessing the best time to plant your seeds, forget to water or weed your garden, or guess the best time to harvest. There are several gardening apps available on the Apple App store and Google Play store. Delete the scoop?
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The Garden Organizer app is a unique gardening tool to help manage the plants and their location within your garden(s).
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Take a break from scrubbing inside, and get organized outside too! Delete the scoop?
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The Chicago Botanic Garden announced a new free smartphone app called GardenGuide. The app shares the Garden’s vast plant-collections database, containing records of the nearly 2.6 million plants in the living collection.
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At the root of it, Sprout it exists because a certain tech-savvy gardener named Sarah envisioned a simple, useful gardening app that would cut through complex and often contradictory information to make growing herbs and veggies a bit easier and more predictable. Since the app launched in March 2013, our small team has been working to get the word out and make the app better with more plants, tools and information for our gardeners. And we’ll continue to do that – Sprout it is always growing!
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If you have a smart phone, it may soon be one of your favorite landscape tools! With the advancements of technology, portable devices can now provide science-based horticulture information in the palm of your hand. You can download apps to help you design rain gardens, diagnose plant problems, search for plants based on a specific need, or just simply find out more about a plant you’re eyeing at the garden center.
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There's a bunch of apps here, but check out Herbarium HD and iNaturalist. Delete the scoop?
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Does gardening happen to be one of your favorite hobbies? Looking to give your green fingers a little bit of action? Want your garden to look its best this year? Gardening can prove to be an extremely relaxing and therapeutic activity, and if you do it well and get things right, it can be extremely rewarding, too. Delete the scoop?
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These flower garden apps are for Android and iOS. Some are free, too.
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The "Garden Colorado" app is now available on Kindles and many Android tablets and includes all of the same content as the iPad app. What you'll find: month-by-month to-do lists from Grow and Home contributor Betty Cahill; a whole section of gardening and yard-maintaining basics, such as understanding soil amendments and microclimates; and an overflowing bushel basket of features on growing vegetables, berries, tomatoes, herbs and other edibles; perennial and annual flowers; and the best shrubs and trees for our climate, soil, and altitude. Best of all? It's free for the downloading.
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Unless your backyard is a stunning vista of concrete, there is always going to be something to do out there. The grass will need cutting and even when nothing else grows, you can guarantee that the weeds are always thriving. Some people are happy to leave their garden alone, but if you have grand designs and want to improve your garden, modern technology can be an enormous help. Apps for smartphones can help take the pain out of garden design. Apps can also save you time and money. So if you want to turn your garden into a paradise of lush foliage and cutting edge design, what iPhone apps can you use?
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Here's their complete list of gardening and homesteading apps. Most are available for both iOS and Android; a few are iOS only. Delete the scoop?
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Since I joined the modern world in getting a smart phone last year, I’ve been on the lookout for great gardening apps that can help me explain landscape design ideas to clients, get plant ideas on the go, or just give me a productive way of killing time when I’m stuck in line at the post office. Delete the scoop?
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My Grandma Phyllis, who comes from a family of farmers, says the best time to plant your garden is after Mother’s Day. The reason? There’s usually no frost after that date, and frost, obviously, can ruin your garden. My grandma is so wise... Delete the scoop?
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Miffy digs and rakes her garden soil in preparation for her carrot crop, and the young reader gets the chance to mimic her actions with fingers on an adjacent screen. Audio narration is provided in both Dutch and British-accented English.
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The Chelsea iPhone App for 2013 is free on iTunes. It provides an in-depth guide to all those exhibiting at the show, including gardens, features, floral exhibits, and shopping.
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