Montanan, To start, you can get lots of free alternate leaves and plants from Varian's site http://www.varian.net/dreamview/ and also from mine, including tutorials how to use it. http://start.at/arte This is especially for trees and other plants, some flowers also. You can create an infinite quantity of plants with existing Vue plants. You also can get PlantStudio, a very unexpensive sharware program to create shrubs, grasses and flowers http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/ (tutorial in english at : http://membres.tripod.fr/esprit_virtuel/plantstudio/plantstudio.html) And of course the CD for flowers at http://www.botanical.com/ (for me too expensive :-(). Guitta