Landscaping: planting and garden hardscape for site plans and courtyards. Palms as a species set (fan, feather, pygmy date, sago, multi-trunk clump), deciduous, evergreen and ornamental trees, shrubs, hedges and grasses, and the garden pieces a courtyard is built from: fountains, fire pits, pergolas, benches, pavers, stepping stones, gravel paths, raised beds and lawn. Every planting symbol is sized to its mature canopy.
38 blocks in 3 families. DXF R2018, drawn in inches.
These 38 blocks are the planting and garden hardscape a site plan or a courtyard is drawn with. Sixteen are palms, drawn as a species set rather than one generic palm: sabal (cabbage palm) and Mexican fan palm with radiating palmate leaves; queen, Canary Island date and Medjool date palms with pinnate fronds; the pygmy date palm and the sago cycad at courtyard and container scale; and a three-trunk Mediterranean fan palm clump. With them are deciduous shade trees at 15 and 30 ft (the 20 ft tree is in the site category), evergreen conifers at 10 and 15 ft, ornamental flowering trees at 8 and 12 ft, 3 and 6 ft shrubs, a hedge row, an ornamental grass clump, and groundcover and lawn areas. The built half is a fountain, a fire pit, two pergolas, a garden bench, running-bond pavers, stepping stones, a gravel path and 4 x 8 and 4 x 12 raised beds.
Every planting symbol is sized to its mature canopy diameter, which is the number in its name: PALM-QUEEN-15 is a 15 ft crown, TREE-EVERGREEN-10 a 10 ft spread. Space plants by canopy, not by the nursery size, and the plan shows crowding and shade honestly. The trunk dot marks where the root ball, the tree grate and the irrigation bubbler go. Trees, palms, shrubs, grass, the fountain and the fire pit insert at their centre; the hedge, the paths, the beds and the paving insert at their near-left corner and run along +X, so set length rather than scaling.
Planting normally goes on an L-PLNT layer and hardscape on L-HARD. Clearances are recorded for the pieces people use: 36 in in front of the bench, a 36 in ring round the fire pit and the fountain, and a 24 in path along each long side of a raised bed. A wood-burning fire pit also needs separation from buildings and combustibles, commonly 25 ft for an open recreational fire under the International Fire Code (15 ft for a portable outdoor fireplace), and local codes vary, so confirm it.
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Draw the mature crown. The blocks here run from a 4 ft pygmy date palm or sago to a 25 ft Canary Island date palm: sabal and Mexican fan palms at 8 and 12 ft, queen palms at 12 and 15 ft, Medjool date palms at 15 and 20 ft, and a Mediterranean fan palm clump at 10 and 15 ft.
A fan palm (sabal, Mexican fan, Mediterranean fan) is drawn as palmate leaves: each frond opens into a pleated fan at the end of its stem. A feather palm (queen, Canary Island date, Medjool, pygmy date) is drawn with pinnate fronds: a central rib with leaflets along both sides. The sago is a cycad and is drawn as a flat, stiff rosette.
The block is a 42 in fire pit with a 36 in ring of clear paving for the seating circle. Separation from the house is a fire-code question: the International Fire Code commonly sets 25 ft for an open recreational fire and 15 ft for a portable outdoor fireplace, and gas fire features follow their listing. Check the local code.
Usually one centrepiece - a fountain or a specimen tree - with the paths laid round it, and planters or beds along the edges. The fountain block is 72 in across with a 36 in walk around it; a queen palm or an ornamental tree works as the living alternative.
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