Draw Your Own Garden Plan Without Expensive Garden Design Software
I experimented with quite a few different garden design software packages. Many of them were very cumbersome or too limited for what I wanted. I eventually found that it was easier to use an Excel spreadsheet by treating it like graph paper and combining this with the many autoshape tools in Excel. The end result can give you a plan of your garden as well as a useful plant list. You can even track information about your plants in the sheet if you like to.
http://www.everchanginggarden.ca/GPDraw.html
I haven't tried it, but it might be useful. I wonder if it works in OpenOffice.
