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I think the toothpick and clump foliage method looks really good. If your layout has a plywood top like mine, build up hill sides with foam board. You can use toopicks, but they're kinda short. Using different lengths of narrow dowel or even nails of different sizes will keep it from looking like a green blanket. Just stick em in the foam, paint the whole thing an earth color, then glue the clump foliage on, with ground foam applied here and there to vary the coloring. They make the foliage in different shades, so you can do that too. The idea of using nice trees like the kind Woodland scenics sells in kits along the woodline combined with lichen bushes here and there will help hide the fact that the other trunks are just nails.
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