Welcome to Our New Website!

We’re proud to finally launch our brand new website, just in time for the New Year! Everything on the site has been upgraded, while most of the useful information that has always been here is still available in an easier to find format that works as well on your cell phone and tablet as it does on your desktop and …

Happy 2022 from Gardenware!

We are thankful for another great year at Gardenware, and look forward to serving all of you as we head into 2022! Here’s to a safe, prosperous New Year for everyone!

Check Out Our New Video Section!

We’ve moved all of our video and print tutorials on to one convenient page for you to access whenever you need. Check it out now – Click Here.

Gardenware Essentials or Gardenware Complete: What’s the Difference?

Gardenware offers two versions of our widely used label and sign printing software.  We are often asked, “What’s the difference?  We always want the best to we probably should order the Complete package.”   As the song title says, “It ain’t necessarily so.” The truth is, for all label and sign making functions both programs are identical!  Both also have …

Version 10 users – Here’s new but overlooked time saving feature

To all Version 10 users: I owe you an apology for not pointing out and emphasizing a new feature that helps make adding new price lines easier, quicker and even more accurate. When entering new price lines you are presented with this screen… You could fill in the blanks to create a new price line but … note the word …

Plant Images for use with Gardenware: A discussion of sources

We hope that everyone who inquires about Gardenware or purchases Gardenware is aware that photographs of the plants are not included with the program. There are a lot of descriptions (close to 7500 of them) included in the program. Since the mid `90s, the Gardenware program has allowed the user to attach pictures to items in the libraries for printing …

“I Can’t Use My Photos! Everything worked last week. What’s going on?”

In the last few weeks we have received calls from Gardenware users who suddenly found that they could not get access to their pictures for printing them on Gardenware signs.  In each case the operating system was either Vista or Windows 7. Also, in each case the user had stored their plant pictures in the Pictures folder that Microsoft so conveniently …

More Templates: Microsoft Word Templates for Garden Center “Groups”

As some of you know, Mary Lee and I owned and operated a garden center at the North Oregon Coast for nearly 30 years. One of our “perennial” issues was the pricing of groups of items such as succulents, ground covers, annuals, basket stuffers, perennials and others. We couldn’t, or at least didn’t want to price each plant. We tried …