Landscaping Your Town
Place trees two spots
from each other. Start at the cliff and place temporary paths every two steps from each other. (You don't literally have to end up planting trees in all these spots.) This will takes tim; but you will develop a consistent template for where you would plant trees.
Decide: Place native fruit trees closest to train tracks (so new human arrival can see the native fruit on the way into town). Maybe yes; but you may want to also surround the Plaza area with your town's native fruit with the trees. (You can do both. If you don't use plant native fruit trees along the tracks; then non-fruit trees would be wise.)
You will need to have planted at least 110 trees, in all, to help qualify for a Perfect Town rating. This includes the beach for the Coconut and Banana trees. For those, you should organize them similarly; but leave open a wide gap, with no trees, for creating hybrids on the beach (so the sun bares down on those flowers).
By the way: When planting a number of trees, in a particular section, let the back row have a day to grow before placing any more trees directly in front of them. Reason for this is because anything in the middle might not grow.
For example: If you plant nine Cherry trees in a section with three in front, three in middle, and three in the back, you will want the back row planted on Day #01, the middle row on Day #02, and the front row on Day #03. (You can check day-to-day to see this is so.) To plant them all on the same game date, you may end up finding that one in the middle row, especially the tree in the center of them all, did not grow.
As for all these bushes, the game makes you wait for those with T&T Emporium. (At least that's what I recall. Unless it's one shop update before Gracie and T&T Emporium.) So, the bushes aren't as big a focus as getting those trees planted for the development of your town.
For getting some paths, I have mine from the following:
I came across these paths from YouTube videos uploaded by that site's member WiiFolderJosh. A lot of people, from WiiFolderJosh's videos, did not include access of their original patterns. The two listed above have. And, as someone who does not have a feeling with these "Animal Crossing: New Leaf" game tools for designing patterns, I am glad and grateful to get these patterns. (I don't have the Dream Address on hand for the patterns I am using in my third active town, Temps.)