@Earth Wolf-Howl: I just visited your town in the dream suite. First, I really like your town. You have some cool ideas that make it look nice, like how you used hedges to make the bench and windmill look good where they are. I like how your town is split into different sections: a more suburban center area (where the town hall and houses are), an area with bushes and hedges, and a Japanese/bamboo area. I also really love how you made things look really natural in your town (with bushes, bamboo, etc.). It's a pretty nice town, in my opinion. However, I do have some suggestions for the empty spots. In the spot near Portia's house where the perfect cherry trees are, you could put in a picnic blanket and add a few more bushes to make it look like a nice little picnic spot. In the area to the left of Erik's house, you could maybe add some trees (I think cedar trees would look good here) to help make it look better. Right now, it looks too empty even though there is the watter pattern. In the empty area near Vladimir's house and town hall, you could add a solar panel and wind turbine here. That area feels more like a suburban area to me, and I think these could look good here. You could put a solar panel with a wind turbine and add some bushes and trees to it to make it look really good. Finally, the empty spot to the right of Pierce's house could be used for more Japanese-based things. I think you could possibly add a hot spring here with some zen lamps and regular trees so that it would fit in with the Japanese theme from that area.
Those are all my opinions, so if you don't like any of them, you don't need to use any of them. I'm glad I visited your town, though. It looks really nice! I enjoyed it!