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The WaterWise Garden  

About the Author of the Gardening  Software 

Hello Fellow WaterWise Gardener,

I started my business, The Water Wise Garden, because of a personal interest in protecting the environment and preserving our precious water supplies.

For years I'd had various ideas about a gardening book floating around in my head, but I wasn't sure what form it would take. It wasn't until we had a particularly long, hot, dry period in the early 1990's, that I noticed that everybody around me seemed to be watering their gardens daily, and I realised that more information on waterwise, xeriscape and drought tolerant plants was required.

I took a look at the plants that I was growing and why it was, during that extended dry period, that I was able to water some plants only once per week, and others not at all.

My other main interest is in organic pest control. I felt that if gardeners were going to go 'organic', then they needed to be able to easily recognise the insects in their environment.

With this in mind, I created the Colourful WaterWise Gardening Software, a plant database of WaterWise, Xeriscape and Drought Tolerant plants, that also incorporates Biological and Organic Pest Control.

In 1999, after 5 years of research and photography, the Colourful WaterWise Gardening Software (version 1.0, we're now up to V 6.0) was ready for release. By this stage the original book concept had changed into a CDRom (thanks to having a partner in the IT industry). We decided to go with the CDRom format because it allowed the 'linking' of all the subjects on the CDRom.

With one of my aims for the software being to have all the plants, flowers and insects readily identifiable, it became a huge job to locate and photograph all the water wise and xeriscape plants, their flowers, and the insect pests and their predators, that are included on the software.

I continue to research 'new' waterwise plants, either by growing them myself or through a network of growers.

I hope you enjoy the Colourful WaterWise Gardening Software as much as I've enjoyed researching and photographing the plants and insects.

Happy WaterWise and Organic Gardening,

Lyn  Phillips