Landscaping advice?

[textbook_punk]

So I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been flummoxed by some of AC’s placement limitations when it comes to decorating and laying out the town. As such, I thought I’d make a post detailing some of the difficulties I’ve run into and asking for advice, in the hopes that I won’t be the only one to benefit from some workarounds for these situations!

The main frustration I’ve had has been trying to place vegetation close to buildings, water and rocks. There is in particular a rock outside my town plaza that has me completely stumped - how can I decorate around this without it being painfully obvious that there’s a big dead spot surrounding the rock!


Pictured: stupid rock.

Does anyone have any advice or thoughts on what I can do to minimise the disruption this rock causes to my design?

 

[Dewy]

I also have a plaza rock that ruins the flow of the design I have. It's pretty frustrating :/
I know this is sort of bad advice, but really the only thing I can advise you to do is accept it for how it is. I don't know about you, but I have this tendency to obsess over trying to make my town "perfect" and have everything flow exactly the way I want it to. I've learned that it's better to just accept things for what they are, because sometimes there are certain areas of your town that will just never be quite the way you want them to. Especially when it comes to annoying rocks.
I've actually started to like the imperfections and areas that seem a little off in my town. It makes things easier ~

Buuttt.. You could try surrounding it with flowers? That's what I did. Or you could move your path and put trees in front of the rock that would hide it from most angles.

Sorry for the terrible advice. XD

 

[textbook_punk]

I understand what you mean! I'm absolutely a perfectionist about these things... which is why I can't move the path, because right now it lines up perfectly with my plaza, Fuschia's house, my mayor's house, my police station and Re-Tail :3 which took a LOT of finagling...

- - - Post Merge - - -

I think flowers are probably the best way. The azalea and the pink lily look sort of similar, so maybe it'll match up okay!

 

[Nanobyte]

I actually think the rock looks nice! It gives a bit of life to your town, and makes it not "No life, all perfect."

 

[MightyMunchlax]

I have a few rocks in bad places in my town as well. Flowers are the only thing you can plant right against them that won't die.

 

[Zulehan]

< flower > < bush > < flower > < rock > < flower > < bush > < flower >

 

[venomousButhidae]

I have a rock in my town that's smack dab in between two houses, one belonging to one of my pathslaves. I think you've seen it before... I can't plug my SD card into my computer atm so I'm afraid I can't show it to you at the moment, but it's basically two paths going past it, and flowers above and below it