Jason-Train wrote: Are you guys saying that you can use real plants as "trees" on your layout? What do you do to keep the stuff from rotting or whatnot? Do you clear coat it or something (or perhaps I'm way off base here) :)
Are you guys saying that you can use real plants as "trees" on your layout? What do you do to keep the stuff from rotting or whatnot? Do you clear coat it or something (or perhaps I'm way off base here) :)
I spray paint some. I tried dipping in diluted matte medium as the super tree people suggest and that worked great.
I apply foam and Nock leaf or grass material with hair spray. I use lots.
Sedium
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
I usually just pick the flower heads in the fall or after they are done blooming let them dry (as in dried flower arrangements - the wife gets/uses)
Then I will spray the dried flowers with different colors of cheap spray paint (depending on the season of the layout) and then just sprinkle on the various colors of ground foam.
I usually then give the finished tree a spray of clear spary paint to lock the ground foam (keep it from falling off after a while).
I also will spray the trunk of the tree with grays or blacks.
Plant the tree!
BOB H - Clarion, PA
Sedum - flower heads
Yarrow - the Fern Leaf type
Oak Leaf Hydrangea
Smoke Bush Blossom
Joe Pye Weed - Great Tree BUT can't find a way to keep the dried blossoms from falling apart after a year!
Crepe Myrtle trees. (The flower clusters after the flowers fall off.)
Goldenrod.
Sagebrush (if you live out west)
Oh Yes. Welcome to the forum. This has been a good topic for a while. I use:
1. Queen of the Praire for Birch trees
2. Asilbe for different small pine trees.
3. Caspia for large pine trees ( I buy this at Michaels)
4. Spirea for Elm trees (tape several together to get a tree).
5.Long grass seeds for Weeping willow (only fair)
I think there are others, but that is a start. I have pics in my photobucket and many of us will talk about this with you if you choose to expand this thread.
Furnace filter on a stick makes great "Aggro pines"
i was wondering if anyone knows of some garden plants or flowers that make good trees
thanks kevin