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I saw an article in MR from July 1996 about making model Palm Trees. It was on a layout that featured a Santa Fe passenger train running along the California coast. What the author used was the twist ties from the produce section at the market. Basically, he cut them into the shape of a palm frond and cut notches along the sides. He then painted them an appropriate shade of green. He took the pieces and twisted them together to form a trunk, then wrapped them with pieces of masking tape. When he finished this, he painted the tape brown to represent the trunk of the tree. The end result looked pretty good and turned out to be far less expensive than buying palm trees. They seemed to be pretty easy to make, too! <br /> <br />-Joe
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