You can also find a wide assortment of planting plans, typically for perennial gardens. A template assumes you can just overlay the packaged plan on your site and off you go - doesn't work like that for any number of reasons, many of which laag alluded to. That is why there is little benefit to using them.Ī Google search will turn up a number of free sites that offer assistance in developing a landscape design, but that is a bit different from a template - you still have to go through the basic design process, measuring the site, evaluating same, analyzing your needs, etc.

Few of these can be changed to support the template.

It would be very difficult to find a template that takes into account the style of house, the terrain, the color, the neighboring properties, the climate, how much maintenance you are willing to do. Almost everything within that space can be changed to fit the template. It is not hard to find a room design for an 18' x 14' room with a door in one corner and a picture window on a wall. I am just offering an explanation of why they are harder to find than furniture/room designs and why I think they are of little value. I don't think it hurts the industry if they exist in great numbers. I don't think it is wrong to look for these. That is why I believe that they are of little value. They can be applied effectively making them of value.Ī landscape has endless variables making templates far less succesful. It is also clear that almost any room of a certain size is the same as another. Plants are available from multiple producers, so direct profit is not so easily realized by having free things available. Furniture and room design has manufactured products that are associated with them that allow such websites to promote products that directly results in sales.

Free landscape layout software