Armitage’s Great Garden Plants App Reviews

As a seasoned nursery man and rare plant junky I was shocked at how few plants were in this app. I did not find one new plant and the selection I could have compiled in a few afternoons. Unless you are new to gardening wait to buy until a much more thorough version is released. Sadly extremely extremely disappointed but hopefully it will improve in the future. Buyers beware.

If you own the maestros incomparable reference book already, save your bread. Unlike the Dirr app, this one isnt a digital version of the book. Is it well done, aesthetically pleasing and easy to use? Yup. Does it have much in the way of content (yet)? Nope. So for now, the big heavy fantastic books stay behind the seat in the truck or within armys reach on the shelf. Hope to see more plants added as time permits.

Impressive! Just what Im looking for when on the go.

Like Dr. Michael Dirr, Dr. Armitage is widely respected among professional horticulturists, landscape architects, and serious amateurs. Both may be tired of the constant comparisons, but thats the reality. If you own the Michael Dirr app ($14.99 and worth twice that), do not expect this app to be similar in any way. While the Dirr app is essentially his complete tome on woody ornamentals (with lots of color pictures!) in a handy little searchable database app, this app is like a Ladies Home Journal spring gardening issue. Its great for sparking some ideas with good photography. Period. It contains a very small personal selection of the authors favorites that seems obsessed with deer resistance. Only barebones information is included on the limited species. For those that buy their plants only at Lowes/Home Depot on weekends in May, this would be a great app if it sold for $.99. Professionals and serious amateurs will be sorely disappointed by this app for $4.99 with Dr. Armitages name on it.

Thanks for this app. I have enjoyed viewing it. Good work.

Great Idea...Lousy Execution Unless you NEVER want to look for plants in any other area than where you are at, then this App is not the App for you as you can not select a location by dropping a pin on the map page and have the results filtered by pin location instead of user location. Sure, you could select the zones 3-4 selection, but then that negates the purpose of the map page doesnt it?

Love the way he groups plant info into shade and sun tolerant, as well as gives info on deer tolerant plants.

I will be recommending this App to my garden center customers, as well using it myself. Very useful gardening information from one of the industries leading experts.

This is the first I have bought written by Dr. Armitage. I was disappointed. I wont go out of my way looking for his books after seeing this. It does have beautiful pictures. I really wanted more about the plants than that and u tube videos.

Just like all Armitage books this is excellent

Good app that is updated often!

I really liked the app but it is hard to find your away around and the design is a little rough.

When I read the plant descriptions I feel like Im listening to Dr. A instead of reading. Good information when looking at new plants for the garden.