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Flowerpedia for your i-phone

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

If you love flowers then this is the application for your i-phone!

Flowerpedia has nearly 1500 super colour photos that can be used as backgrounds, emailed to friends or enjoyed. The app includes over 100 families of flowers with information on how to identify them.

It takes a while to download, but it’s worth it!

You can browse by floral rating, by random order, by floral family, and by genus. The background information on each variety is superb!

They say that there are gardening tips and medicinal updates to come soon. And once down loaded (which explains the  download time) you don’t need the internet.

Expect to pay £2.99  for the download.

Useful i-phone and i-pad apps for gardeners

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Getting the weather right is a must for keen gardeners. So a good app for the i-phone or i-pad is a really useful tool.

I’ve experimented with a few apps and the one I tend to rely on more than anything is WeatherPro.

It’s provided by the MeteoGroup in Germany and has excellent Apple ratings. At latest inspection it costs around £2.39 to download onto your i-phone. You can also see it at  www.weatherpro.eu

WeatherPro provides you with local weather reports across the forthcoming 7 days and uses straightforward symbols that even I can understand!

You can review the weather reports on multiple cities across Europe and Globally in your “Locations” store.

The summary report provides you with the overall weather for the day, average temperature, hours of sunshine, the likelihood and degree of precipitation, and wind speed and direction.

Clicking onto any day’s reports unfolds a breakdown of the likely weather pattern  throughout the day.

Watch WeatherPro’s video from U-tube…..

Click Here

To download click on the App Store icon on your i-phone or i-pad and search for WeatherPro.

Watch out for more i-phone app tips, and do let us have your thoughts on other i -phone apps you feel are a must for keen gardeners.