West Coasters may also want to look at Sunset Western Garden, the much-anticipated Mac and Windows title from the publishers of Sunset’s popular Western Garden book. Type in your ZIP code, and the program delivers a regional photo, along with text on weather patterns, soil conditions and some of the 6,000 plants in its database best suited to your area. But this frustratingly disjointed program relies more on doll videotaped tips and back-issue articles from Sunset magazine than on organized thought. It needs a Weedwacker.
