DesktopPlant is a very interesting and cool electric virtual planting program. It allows you to grow several common ornamental plants on your desktop to bring some vitality. They also do need you to take care carefully, just like the real flowers in life.

With your careful care, DesktopPlant will grow up day by day. Its vivid 3D graphics as well as the real plant growing and environmental simulation will really make you forget it's just an "electronic plant" toy!

Well, just choose your favorite plant, understand its habit, water it and apply fertilizer, cultivate it well... At last it will return you the happiness you should have! BTW, if you want to keep a little monster on the surface of desktop, try BinaryToys.

Key Features

  • Amazingly realistic growth (realistic plant development depending on water, fertilizer, environmental parameters, etc.)
  • Random effects will guarantee that each plant is unique
  • DesktopPlants are 3D models of a real plants with enhanced visual effects
  • Optimized routines for beautiful photorealistic graphics
  • DesktopPlants grow directly on the desktop – above the selected wallpaper but below the icons
  • Adjustable size and position
  • Many plants can be displayed simultaneously
  • and much more…

Included Plants

  • Azalea
  • Cactus
  • Maple Tree
  • Philodendron
  • Sunflower

Edition Statement

AppNee provides the DesktopPlant full installers and unlock patchers for Windows.

Installation Notes

for DesktopPlant v1.8.2:
  1. download and install DesktopPlant main program (don't start)
  2. copy 'eithel.dlc' to the installation folder of DesktopPlant (like "D:\Program Files\DesktopPlant\")
  3. Run 'patch.exe' and locate the "DesktopPlant.exe" file in the installation directory
for DesktopPlant v3.1.2:
  1. download and install DesktopPlant v3.1.2
  2. copy the unlock patch to installation directory and apply (run as administrator if required)
  3. restart your Windows, this is not a must-do step
  4. grow a flower from "All Programs/DesktopPlant/Plants" (or C:\Users\G\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\DesktopPlant\Plants)
*** The unlock patches for DesktopPlant v3.1.3 might not work well on many PCs. But the one for v1.8.2 and v3.1.2 work all the time.

Download URLs

Version Download Size
v3.1.3 1.32 MB
v3.1.2 990 KB
v1.8.2 400 KB
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