How to Draw a Landscape Design Plan

What is landscape design? It's a floor plan but for an outdoor area. Same as a floor plan, a landscape design represents visually any site using scaled dimensions. The main purpose of landscape design is to plan the layout for an outdoor area no matter is it a personal site plan for your home or a commercial plan for business. It may also be handful when a new installation, repair or even an outdoor event is planning. It helps to calculate time and decide which materials should be used in your project. Landscape designs perfectly gives the property owner and landscape contractor better vision for cost estimation, helping to ensure the project time and budget.

How To use Landscape Design Software

Creation great-looking or even impressive landscape designs is a great labour and real art. There are required the fundamental knowledge in design field, architecture and construction, and also in other special fields, such as plant growing, history, culture, philosophy, etc. Moreover, you need to have good artistic abilities for achievement success in landscape design. All these nuances create the impression that it is incredibly complex process, but ConceptDraw DIAGRAM aims to radically change your opinion and make you closer to the realization of your dream. Now thanks to the Landscape & Garden solution included to the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park, you can fully concentrate on the creation the masterpieces in landscape design, without worrying about drawing process. Powerful drawing tools and included numerous collection of samples, templates and pre-designed vector objects are helpful for creation Landscape designs and Landscape plans of any complexity and style, they help you unlock your creativity and design easily the lively garden.

Landscape & Garden

The Landscape and Gardens solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is the ideal drawing tool when creating landscape plans. Any gardener wondering how to design a garden can find the most effective way with Landscape and Gardens solution.

Landscape Plan

A landscape plan depicts all the features of a future garden including buildings, plants, lawns or a patio. Such plan is a very important part of site adjustment because it gives a complete picture of future project.

Interior Design. Site Plan — Design Elements

Site plans are large scale drawings that illustrate a lot of useful information, such as location of buildings on the surrounding territories, topography of the site, roads, footpaths, paved and hardstandings areas, ramps, parking areas, fencing, walls and gates, landscape elements, trees and plants, layout of external lighting and service runs, adjoining and adjacent structures, surrounding streets, and many other details. On each Site plan are also designated the scale, dimensions, site boundaries, key materials, and other additional notes. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and interior design software extended with Site Plans solution from Building Plans area contains Parking and Roads, Site Accessories, Trees and Plants libraries with numerous collection of ready-to-use vector design elements for drawing detailed Site plans, Site design plans, Structural site plans, Landscape drawings for any locality and of any complexity without efforts. This software will be also useful for planning the parks, creation yard layouts, development residential and commercial landscape designs.

Building Drawing. Design Element Site Plan

Site Plan is a part of a development project. It is a visual graphic representation of the arrangement of buildings, parking for cars and bikes, drives, landscaping, parks, flowerbeds, benches and other structural elements on the plan. Depending on the degree of detailing you can see on the Site plan more or fewer of building constructions and landscape design elements. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM Solution Park includes a specially developed Site Plans solution from the Building Plans area, which offers templates, samples, examples, and a lot of predesigned building drawing design elements for Site plan. The set of design elements contains the exclusive vector shapes of site accessories, parking, roads, trees, plants, etc. So, with confidence we can say that ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with Site Plans solution is the best help for all in development and drawing your own Residential and Commercial landscape designs, Site plans, Park plans, Yard layouts, Outdoor recreational facilities and Irrigation system plans, and many others.

How to Design Landscape

How to design landscape? You can draw it by hand on a sheet of paper, but for this you need to know the bases of the perspective, you need to have good artistic abilities and to know how to depict the natural elements. But it is much easier and convenient to use the modern ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Landscape & Garden Solution from the Building Plans Area.

Building Drawing Software for Design Site Plan

Site plan is a detailed architectural plan or document, landscape architecture project for considered object. It is a part of technical design documentation that illustrates the arrangement of buildings, trails, roads, parking, lighting, water lines, sanitary sewer lines, drainage facilities, landscape and garden elements. Site plans are constructed by architects, landscape designers or licensed design engineers, and used by the builders, contractors and installers when constructing or making improvements to some property. They reflect the main design ideas and give an instantly vision of future result after the plan's implementation. They have special value for the large projects of single or multi-floor buildings, and for accomplishment the whole districts. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with Site Plans solution offers the powerful building drawing software tools and vector design elements for development and drawing Site plans and Landscape design drawings, Residential and Commercial landscape designs, Parks and Landscaping territories plans, Yard layouts, etc.

Design elements - Trees and plants

The design elements library Trees and plants contains 29 symbols of trees, hedges, groundcovers, greenery, and shrubbery.
"Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practised by landscape designers, combining nature and culture. In contemporary practice landscape design bridges between landscape architecture and garden design.
Landscape design focuses on both the integrated master landscape planning of a property and the specific garden design of landscape elements and plants within it." [Landscape design. Wikipedia]
Use the vector stencils library Trees and plants to draw the plans of landscape architecture, lawns, gardens, yards, parks planning, groundskeeping, landscape design, and arboretums using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The shapes library Trees and plants is contained in the Site Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw PRO Solution Park.

, succulent, potted plant, perennial border, palm tree, ornamental grass, groundcover, deciduous tree, deciduous shrub, conifer tree, conifer shrub, conifer hedge, cactus, broadleaf hedge, broadleaf evergreen tree, broadleaf evergreen shrub,

Trees and plants - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "Trees and plants" contains 29 symbols of trees, hedges, groundcovers, greenery, and shrubbery. Use these shapes for drawing your site plans, landscape architecture, lawns, gardens, yards, parks planning, groundskeeping, landscape design, and arboretums in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Site Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Conifer tree A

Conifer tree B

Conifer shrub c

Conifer tree D

Deciduous tree A

Deciduous tree B

Deciduous tree C

Deciduous tree D

Broadleaf evergreen tree

Palm tree

Conifer shrub a

Conifer shrub b

Conifer shrub c

Conifer shrub d

Deciduous shrub a

Deciduous shrub b

Deciduous shrub C

Deciduous shrub d

Deciduous shrub e

Broadleaf evergreen shrub

Broadleaf hedge

Conifer hedge

Groundcover

Perennial border

Succulent

Cactus

Ornamental grass

Potted plant 1

Potted plant 2

Used Solutions

Building Plans >

Site Plans

How to Design a Garden

You are landscape designer and dream about powerful drawing software to quickly represent your design ideas on the screen and on the paper? Each time you ask yourself a question "How to design a garden fast and easy?". You want to automate creating of landscape and garden plans? ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Landscape & Garden Solution from the Building Plans Area will help you!

Modern Garden Design

The modern garden design is a full complex of works for design, decorating and gardening. Landscape design offers a large number of styles for the modern garden design, their origins go back centuries. But do not forget that the modern garden design is first of all an individual project for a specific landscape and specific owner of the land, and sometimes it is appropriate to apply the combination of styles. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software offers the unique Landscape & Garden Solution from the Building Plans area for effective development the modern garden design.

How To use House Design Software

The house construction requires from its architect the creation of serie of different building plans, such as general plan for the whole building, plans for each floor with all dimensions, plans of plumbing, heating, electricians. But when the home will be built, you will need also detailed plans of its design, finishing and decoration. House design plans are not less important than house building plans, and moreover they both must to be well coordinated and harmonized with each other. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software extended with Floor Plans solution from Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is powerful house design software which greatly saves your time. Now you don't need to learn difficult architectural software, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM offers all needed drawing tools for easy creation professional-looking plans and layouts for houses and other buildings and premises, and then on their base great-looking design plans, plans of lighting, of furniture arrangement, etc. Included built-in templates and examples will be also perfect base for your own plans.

Design elements - Bushes and trees (trees)

The vector stencils library "Bushes and trees" contains 57 clipart images of bushes and trees. Use it to create your landscape design and garden plan.
"Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display. The cultivation of these, called floriculture, forms a major branch of horticulture. ...
Similarly certain trees may be called ornamental trees. This term is used when they are used as part of a garden or landscape setting, for instance for their flowers, their texture, form and shape, and other aesthetic characteristics. In some countries trees in 'utilitarian' landscape use such as screening, and roadside plantings are called amenity trees." [Ornamental plant. Wikipedia]
The trees clipart example "Design elements - Bushes and trees (trees)" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Landscape & Garden solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Ornamental trees

Used Solutions

Building Plans >

Landscape & Garden

Design elements - Transparent trees

The vector stencils library "Transparent trees" contains 26 clipart images of ornamental trees. Use it to create your landscape design and garden plans.
"Trees create a visual impact in the same way as do other landscape features and give a sense of maturity and permanence to park and garden. They are grown for the beauty of their forms, their foliage, flowers, fruit and bark and their siting is of major importance in creating a landscape. They can be grouped informally, often surrounded by plantings of bulbs, laid out in stately avenues or used as specimen trees. As living things, their appearance changes with the season and from year to year." [Tree. Wikipedia]
The ornamental trees clipart example "Design elements - Transparent trees" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Landscape & Garden solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Ornamental trees

Used Solutions

Building Plans >

Landscape & Garden

Download ConceptDraw PRO
Free 21 Trial for Mac and PC

Buy Now