The plants band holds what goes in the ground and where. Beds are drawn; plants are placed.
Beds and borders
- Select the Plants tab.
- Draw a bed with the pencil (the natural way to draw one), an ellipse or a polygon. It is a coloured area on the plan and a flat patch in 3D — plants do not raise the ground; if a bed is to be raised, draw that on the terrain band first.
- Give it a fill colour or the Pine mulch texture with the chips.
Offset (I) draws a border a set distance inside a bed, and a lawn drawn on the terrain band can be Fit around a bed so the two do not overlap.
Place plants
Place object on the plants band opens the library at its plant category. Some entries are full 3D trees and shrubs; others are plant markers — a map pin that stands for a specimen without drawing one in 3D.
For a marker:
- Mark in the sidebar sets how big the marker is drawn on the plan: a canopy width for a tree, a spot for a bulb.
- Plant type is where you write the species — Pinus nigra, Juodoji pušis. The photorealistic render is told the marker's label, so the picture grows what you named.
Place a marker per specimen, or one per drift with a wider mark.
Keep it readable
Group a border's plants into a folder (select them, ⌘G) named for the bed. Hide the whole plants band with its eye while grading the ground, and turn the Pins and Objects layers off from the top bar's Layers menu when the plan gets busy.
Next
Create an object with AI or from photos — when the library has not got the thing you need.