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Free landscaping entourage CAD blocks for AutoCAD
By Sumana Kumar · Published 24 Mar 2025 · Updated 17 Jun 2025
Landscape is the layer that turns a hard, technical site plan into somewhere people would actually want to be. This free landscaping entourage pack gathers the planting blocks you reach for most — trees, shrubs, hedges, potted plants and groundcover — drawn in both plan and elevation, in DWG and ready to insert into AutoCAD 2004 or later. Everything downloads free for personal and commercial work, with no signup, no watermark and no credit required.
Use the pack to dress a masterplan, soften a building elevation, fill a courtyard or set out a planting plan. Because the blocks are drawn to believable canopy and spread sizes, you can check that a street tree won't overhang a carriageway, that a shrub bed reads at the right density, and that a row of planters actually fits the terrace, all the moment they hit the page.
Landscape entourage is also about texture. A masterplan with varied canopy shapes, a few specimen trees and some loose shrub massing reads as a designed scheme rather than a parking lot with a tree symbol stamped on it. Keeping the planting on its own layers means you can carry that richness through the presentation and then strip it back to a clean engineering base whenever you need to.
What's in the landscaping pack
The pack covers the planting palette of a typical scheme. Trees come as plan-view canopies — broadleaf, conifer and palm outlines — plus matching elevation trees for sections and street views. Shrubs and hedges arrive as both single plants and ready-to-array massing blocks for filling beds. Potted plants and planters cover terraces, balconies and interior atria, and a set of groundcover and grass-edge symbols rounds out the soft landscape.
Because planting varies so much in size, the blocks are drawn at sensible representative spreads that you scale to the species and maturity you're showing. Each is a single block reference you can copy, rotate and array, and the canopies are drawn cleanly enough to read at masterplan scale without filling in solid.
How to use the planting set on a site plan
Build landscape as a small stack of layers rather than one. A common split is L-PLANT-TREE for trees, L-PLANT-SHRB for shrubs and hedges, and L-PLANT-GRND for groundcover and grass. That lets you produce a clean tree plan, a full planting plan and a hard-landscape-only base from the same DWG by toggling layers.
Start with the structure planting — specimen and street trees — because they anchor the composition and cast the most shadow. Drop shrub massing into the beds next, using array or a hatch-plus-symbol approach for large areas, then add groundcover and edges last. Vary tree scale and rotation slightly between instances so a row of street trees looks planted rather than printed.
Per-item notes: trees, shrubs and planters
Trees are the items most worth scaling carefully. A small ornamental might spread 2–4 m, a mid-size street tree 5–8 m, and a mature shade tree 8–12 m or more, so insert the canopy block and scale it to the species. Keep the trunk centred on your planting point so the canopy grows evenly when you scale.
Shrubs and hedges are usually shown as massing rather than individual plants on a masterplan; a single shrub block at 0.6–1.2 m spread works for detail plans, while a hedge run is best drawn as a continuous block you stretch to length. Planters and potted plants are dimension-driven — a terrace planter might be 400–600 mm wide — so place them against the real terrace edge to check the layout actually fits the available depth.
Plan and elevation planting
For the layout you work in plan: canopies and beds seen from above, arrayed across the site. The plan tree shows spread and shadow footprint, which is what governs spacing and overhang. For sections, street views and softened building elevations you switch to the elevation blocks, where the tree is seen from the side at its full height.
Elevation planting is where scale figures and trees work together: a 1.7 m person beside a young tree and a mature one instantly communicates the difference between planting on day one and planting in twenty years. Many landscape blocks ship both views, so you can build the masterplan and a matching street section from a single download.
Who uses the landscaping pack
Landscape architects, architects, urban designers and engineers all draw planting. The pack suits residential masterplans, public realm and streetscape schemes, courtyards and roof terraces, parks and play spaces, and the soft landscape around commercial and institutional buildings. It's equally useful for a quick concept sketch, a detailed planting plan, or a glossy competition board.
Pair the planting with the people, vehicle and outdoor-furniture blocks elsewhere in the library to build a full external entourage — a tree, a bench beneath it, a parked car at the kerb and a couple walking past. Because everything here is free and licence-clear, you can assemble that kit once and reuse it across every external drawing you produce.
Keeping the planting layer manageable
Large planting plans can get heavy fast, so favour arrays and reusable massing blocks over hundreds of hand-placed individual plants. For a big shrub bed, draw one representative cluster, make it a block, and array or copy it across the area; for street trees, use a path array along the kerb line so the spacing stays even and editable.
Colour and lineweight keep the plan readable. Give trees a mid-green outline, shrubs a softer tone and groundcover a light hatch so the hierarchy reads at a glance. When you need a clean civil or architectural base, freeze the planting layers; when the landscape drawing goes out, thaw them. If you later need to simplify a busy canopy for small-scale printing, edit the block definition once with BEDIT and every instance updates together.
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Questions
Frequently asked
Are these landscaping CAD blocks free to use commercially?+
Yes. The whole pack downloads free in DWG with no signup, no watermark and no attribution requirement, cleared for commercial planting plans, masterplans and presentation drawings.
Do the blocks include both plan and elevation planting?+
Yes. You get plan-view canopies and beds for site plans and matching elevation trees and shrubs for sections and street views. Where a block carries both views they're in the same DWG.
How do I scale a tree block to the right spread?+
Insert the canopy block, then SCALE it about the trunk to the mature spread for the species — roughly 2–4 m for ornamentals, 5–8 m for street trees and 8–12 m for large shade trees. Keeping the trunk centred makes the canopy grow evenly.
What's the best way to fill a large shrub bed?+
Draw one representative cluster, make it a block, and array or copy it across the bed rather than placing every plant by hand. That keeps the file light and the spacing editable, and you can vary scale and rotation slightly so it reads as planted.
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