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Top Apps to Help You Landscape like a RCI Pro

Samantha Betancourt, Marketing Specialist • May 23, 2019

Using Technology to Elevate Your Residential Lawn Care

 

Do you have a passion forgardening or lawn care?

 

Perhaps you enjoy nothing morethan spending the mid-morning hour’s elbows deep in the soil planting newannuals or perennials in your front yard. Trust us – we completely understandthe allure! While we all wish we could have an RCI horticulturist to makerecommendations for us or an RCI landscape designer to pinpoint the perfectplacement for your newest addition – it just isn’t possible.

 

Let not your green thumb becomedismayed! Our team of landscape professionals has compiled a list of ourfavorite apps for iPhone and Android to help you bring your home garden toeditorial-like worthiness!


 

SmartPlant: Identify & Care

 

Free - Available for iOS and Android

 

SmartPlant is a completely freeapp that can be used to identify new plants and pests in your garden. Equippedwith the world’s largest plant library, you will be able to identify differentplants and plant types! The ability to personalize this app and only includethe plants in your garden will help you become an expert in no time at all!


 

Gardening Companion

 

Free - Available for iOS

 

The Gardening Companion app isunique because of it's built in Garden Journal feature. Not only will you havea wealth of gardening information at your fingertips, including but not limitedto videos, article and community forums but you will also have the ability totrack your own garden’s progress! You will receive automatic updates on yourplants based on recorded weather history in your area as well! Did we mentionit’s FREE?



Flower Checker

 

$0.99 - Available for iOS and Android

 

Would you like to have theknowledge of an expert botanist at the touch of a button? Yes, please! The Flower Checker app makes sure your plantsare identified by the experts who have been able to identify over 90% of plantspecies correctly. No computer automation here – a real human being will lookat your uploaded image and help you to correctly identify your plant. A specialperk of this app? While it does cost $0.99, there are in pesky in-appadvertisements!


 

GardeningManager

 

Free - Available for Android

 

Go ahead; tell all of yourfriends you have a Garden Manager on staff. You’d be telling the truth as soonas you downloaded the Gardening Manager app! This free app helps you track yourplantings throughout the season and while also allowing you to record growingpatterns for the following seasons.


 

GardenCompass

 

Free - Available for iOS

 

Maybe gardening isn’t yourpassion – but you do want to take expert care of your lawn. There is an app forthat too! The Gardening Compass app works by allowing you to take photos ofproblem areas in your lawn and garden and uploading them to the app. A plantexpert will review your image and get back to you with a diagnosis andsolution. Identifying plant disease and pests early can make a huge differencein your lawn care this season!

 


 

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