Thanks Mike

I've been working on the remaining jungle and swamp trees this afternoon.  The jungle trees are just fillers to go between the palms and nothing all that special, but the swamp trees are a bit more important than that.  This is the wrong colour, because texturing in ngPlant is a pain and extremely basic, but it gives some idea.  

I hope these new gum trees look about right. I had trouble deciding what basic colour they should be. I also did some more work on the saguaros. They should be a more realistic shape now.

I'm going to stop worrying about the relative scale. All the tree objects are roughly three sizes - small, normal and large. That's so you can still tell what they are on the map, despite their relative sizes being different in reality.

Remy is right. That's a good first map.

Looking forward to seeing more from you :)

I think I may have a scale issue here. Because I've never seen any of these trees for real I can only go on what Google says is the height range for each one, which is altogether rather vague. So here are a few I'm not sure about next to each other. Please feel free to comment.

Are the Joshua trees too big? Are the gum trees too small? Are the saguaro too big or small?

Not sure if they would double for birch because the leaves are quite dark, but you could scale them differentially to make them slimmer.

Been working on everything I've done so far together today - to get things like relative contrast and shadows right. The Joshua trees are in the pipeline, but not yet finished.