M - Free or Discounted for Members 
$ - Available to Non-Members for a Fee

ASLA 2012 Student Honor Award, General Design     Vertical Territories     Chen Chen, Student ASLA; E. Scott Mitchell, Student ASLA, and Amy      Whitesides, Student ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of         Design

ASLA members get discounts of up to 10 percent on landscape architecture and planning software provided by firms such as Eagle Point, CITYgreen, and Vectorworks. ASLA has also reviewed free and open-source software available to landscape architects, and provided links to download.

Purchase:

Eagle Point LANDCADD Software, M, $ 

Masterspec Landscape Architecture Specifications, M 

Land F/X, M, $

Vectorworks Landmark Software, M 

Download Free or Open Source Landscape Architecture- related Software:

Freeware 

Google Sketch-up - 3D Modeling
i-Tree - Urban forest modeler
Kerkythea - Renderer, sketch-up plugin available
Terragen - Landscape modelling

Open Source Software (OSS)  

Archimedes - CAD
Blender - 3D modeling
BRL-CAD - CAD 
Compiz Fusion - Composite window manager
Freemind - Idea mapping for meeting notes, brainstorming
Gimp - Image and graphics editor, alternative to Photoshop.
Grass - Geographic Information System (GIS)
Inkscape - Vector graphics editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator
Scribus - Desktop publisher, similar to Adobe InDesign and Quark Express
QCad - CAD