In my opinion Poliigon is one of the best places to get 3D plant models. They are very sharp and with a little bit of tweaking they can come in extremely well when imported to Lumion. If you want to start with Blender but have no idea how or find it intimidating, this is a fantastic tutorial to start with! If there is one trick, I could say will help the most for a Lumion workflow it would be this one.

I took the video with the Poliigon logo in the beginning from the Blender Guru's introduction to architecture video since it was a great example of the variety of plants.

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INTRO MUSIC:
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Timestamps in the video:
Example Video 0:00
Introduction 0:30
Intro Video 2:12
Downloading from Poliigon 2:34
Why Going Directly into Lumion is Not The Best Way 4:40
Why I Like Using Waxiness for Fruit and Plants 5:50
Applying Textures to Echeveria Plant 7:00
Blender – No Worries It’s Easy 7:35
Blender – Making Leaf Material 8:25
Blender Select Linked (Just Press L Over Faces!) 9:35
Bringing Adjusted Plant Back into Lumion 10:55
UV Unwrapping Is Cool 12:18
Blender – Make Dirt Separate as Well 13:40
Reimporting to Lumion With Dirt Separate 14:40
Making Final Material Adjustments 15:00
Going into Rendered Mode 15:45
Importing A Second Plant as Fast as Possible 16:25
Check Before You Pick A Normal Map! 19:10
Conclusion 20:05