Phone Apps are a key Marketing Tool

Phone Apps are a key marketing tool and some retail sectors are far more advanced than others. One of the slower moving retail sectors when it comes to Phone Apps is the garden retail sector.

Two new Phone Apps have caught my attention in the last month.

Smart Gardener.com is designed to help gardeners garden and is the most widely used App in the garden sector. Designed for American gardens it shows what can be achieved in this sector.

PRO Landscape provides leading landscape & garden design solutions for the home garden designer.

For the last 20 years PRO Landscape has designed software for complete landscape design that includes photo imaging, easy-to-use CAD, night & holiday lighting, 3D rendering and a free Companion tablet app for mobile design .

Their new free PRO Landscape Home app is a fast and fun way for homeowners to design their dream landscape or garden using a picture of their house. Users design using a large image library or purchase access to an even larger library. Then share their finished designs on their favourite social media site.

Both these apps show the potential in the garden retail sector and I am sure we will see other innovative ideas be developed in the coming months.