I set up lots of mini-parks, edging areas with shrubs, accenting with bamboo, trees and projects. Cozyton Heart Park is particularly cool, and the Rose Park next to the mayor's house is almost finished. (Changing and moving a bench still, and some of the bamboo needs one more day to mature.
Feel free to dream snoop, it will give you a chance to see a number of finished areas - and the newly planted area I set up today because a new animal neighbor plopped their house on one of my tree lined walkways.
Also, the town shrubs are currently all hibiscus. I'm stockpiling starts of all of the other shrubs and will change them out for the various bloom seasons. Also, I'm only growing hybrids now, and their garden plots are set up to minimize the chance of new houses plopping on them!
I really liked your paths. I didn't want ones where I needed an entire character just to hold the patterns, and didn't feel like making my own atm (As you probably noticed on my blog, I am on a Pokemon Pattern kick ). Two patterns is just the right amount!