• 🌱 Plant Management: Track and manage a virtual collection of plants.
• ☀️ Growth Simulation: Watch your plants grow, change, and react based on care routines.
• 🎨 Design Pattern Showcase: A practical C++ demonstration of multiple GoF design patterns.

PhotoSyntech employs 12 different design patterns to create a modular, extensible, and efficient system. Below is a summary of the patterns used. For a more detailed explanation, please see the individual documentation files.

Category	Pattern	Responsibility
Creational	Builder	Constructs complex plant objects step by step, separating construction from representation.
	Prototype	Creates new plant objects by cloning existing instances, avoiding costly creation.
	Singleton	Ensures a single, global instance for shared resources like the main inventory and flyweight factories.
Structural	Composite	Treats individual plants and groups of plants uniformly in a hierarchical structure.
	Decorator	Dynamically adds new attributes and behaviors to plant objects without altering their structure.
	Facade	Provides a simplified, unified interface to the complex subsystems of the nursery.
	Flyweight	Minimizes memory usage by sharing common, immutable data (like strategies and seasons) among many objects.
Behavioral	Iterator	Provides a standard way to traverse plant collections, with support for filtering (e.g., by season).
	Mediator	Centralizes communication between staff and customers, reducing direct dependencies between them.
	Observer	Notifies staff automatically when plants change state or require care.
	State	Manages a plant's lifecycle (Seed, Vegetative, Mature, Dead) by altering its behavior as its state changes.
	Strategy	Defines a family of interchangeable algorithms for plant care (e.g., watering, sun exposure).

• System Class Diagram
• State Diagram
• Activity Diagram
• Sequence Diagram
• Object Diagram
• Communication Diagram

• Plant-Lifecycles

• Getting Started
• Build and Run
• Team