PLANT MERCHANDISING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20080243639A1
• Filed: 04/02/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jayme A. Mullaney
• Original Assignee: Jayme A. Mullaney
• Inventors: Mullaney, Jayme A.
• Application Number:
  US11/695,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20080243639A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A plant merchandising display provides for the display of plants in arrays, groupings and sets based on one or more product characteristics such that a customer may readily associate product selection criteria and product characteristics to resulting in satisfactory product selections. A plant merchandising system and program includes the plant merchandising display as well as a landscape design module that includes garden design tools to assist a customer in planning an entire landscape or a single garden. The plant merchandising system and program also include a plant directory that allows a customer to view plant information and make plant selections and plant maintenance guides to assist customers in planning and scheduling garden maintenance. Purchase documents may be created at a purchase order processing module from garden plans developed in the landscape design module and plant lists developed at the plant directory or in the plant merchandising display.

Claims

1. A plant merchandising display comprising one or more relational plant arrays, each of the one or more relational plant arrays including a plurality of plants arranged according to a plant characteristic.

2. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises blossom season.

3. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises a blossom color.

4. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises a complimentary blossom color.

5. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises mature plant height.

6. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises relative sun/shade tolerance.

7. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises plant watering needs.

8. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises a garden design objective.

9. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 further comprising a physical display.

10. The plant merchandising display of claim 1 further comprising a virtual display.

17. The plant merchandising system of claim 10 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises mature plant height.

11. A plant merchandising system comprising:

a landscape design module; and

a plant merchandising display comprising one or more relational plant arrays, each of the one or more relational plant arrays including a plurality of plants arranged according to a plant characteristic.

12. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the landscape design module further comprises:

landscape design tools adapted to assist a customer in designing a landscape including one or more gardens;

selectable garden plan templates that may be incorporated in the landscape;

garden design tools adapted to assist a customer in designing a garden that may be incorporated in the landscape; and

a plant directory adapted to assist a customer in selecting plants for the garden.

13. The plant merchandising system of claim 12 further comprising a purchase order processing module adapted to create a purchase order from a selected or designed garden selected or designed at the landscape design module.

14. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises blossom season.

15. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises a blossom color.

16. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises a complimentary blossom color.

18. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises relative sun/shade tolerance.

19. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises plant watering needs.

20. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant characteristic further comprises a garden design objective.

21. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant merchandising display further comprises a physical display.

22. The plant merchandising system of claim 11 wherein the plant merchandising display further comprises a virtual display.

23. A computer-implemented plant merchandising system comprising:

a computer operable plant merchandising program operable on the computer, the computer operable plant merchandising program including,

a) a landscape design module including,

i) landscape design tools adapted to assist a customer in designing a landscape including one or more gardens,

ii) selectable garden plan templates that may be incorporated in the landscape,

iii) garden design tools adapted to assist a customer in designing a garden that may be incorporated in the landscape,

iv) a garden plan/plant list compiler adapted to output a plant list of selected plants,

b) a plant selection module including one or more relational plant arrays including a plurality of plants arranged according to a plant characteristic;

c) a garden display module adapted to permit a user to view a selected garden; and

d) a purchase order processing module adapted to process plant list information to create a purchase order.

24. The computer-implemented plant merchandising system claim 23 further comprising a drag and drop feature adapted to permit a user to substitute plants from the plant arrays or plant lists with plants in the selected garden.