Nice project. We have a great store near here called "Flower Factory" that caries a really wide variety of weeds in assorted colors. Their prices are great; a forest could easily be made for under $20. Sure beats buying the premade trees!
Thanks for posting.
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Our local dollar stores also carry alot of the floral pieces ... a buck a bag !
continueing with this theme I am posting a how to on quick, easy and cheap trees that are good looking and can be mass produced.
Materials needed are: filler material from the floral department ( about $5.00), fl;orist wire, at least 2 or 3 differant shades or green spraypaint, brown spraypaint,white glue, sissors,and wire cutters.
the first step is to break apart the bundle and take 1 or 2 "branches" out. cut these in to a lenth about the size of the tree to be made.
Group the trimmings together putting the tallest at the center and working outwards from both sides with the smaller sizes. Tightly tie a small (about 5") peice of floral wire around the trunk, starting at the top and working down to the base. Make sure to keep this as tight as possible.
take the brown spraypaint and paint the trunk area. On the pale tree I paint the ENTIRE tree as a base.
Using the differant shades of green paint go over the leaf area of the tree.
As a bonus, save the cuttings from the trees that you made to use a ground cover detail; twigs,branches,leaves,weeds,ect.
Use a holemaker or drill with a bit just smaller then the tree base and white glue to mount to your layout.
One package of filler yeilds about 6 to 10 trees depending on the size. I have made about 70 of theses for my layout so far!
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