If you have completed the exercise involving a new design for the rear of a two story house, you might like to think ahead a little and challenge yourself. Most landscape plans start with some sort of site survey or inventory where you record what's on the site and jot down design ideas that occur to you during a site visit. Let's imagine that you were asked to prepare a landscape plan for a site containing two buildings - a main house in the front and a studio at the rear. These two buildings and part of the site are shown in the figures below. Clearly a landscape plan is needed, but we do not 'jump in' and start drawing as you have done thus far. The first step is to make an inventory/siteanalysis/opportunity diagram. Such a diagram can be developed by hand or in GardenCAD.
this site is in the northern hemisphere, near Seattle in Washington State.
View of main house
Studio
Here is an example of a bubble diagram/design opportunities drawing. This has been drawn using Microsoft PowerPoint, a tool not recommended for drawing. If you use PowerPoint as a drawing tool, the drawing has major limitations - since it is not drawn full size proportions may well be wrong and it is not possible to interrogate the drawing and take off quantities such as distance and areas etc.
Your task
Produce a similar drawing using GardenCAD. Hint: start using layers - you might create a boundary layer, a house footprint layer, concept layer etc.
When that's done
Create a landsacpe plan for the site. Remember that the site is in the northern hemisphere, the soils are rich and acidic while plants such as rhododendrons and azaleas grow naturally in the area - conditions not often met in Australia.