Last fall 2006, I was walking through the parking lot of the grocery store, across from my store... Well, what did my wondering eyes behold!? A waist high shrub/bush, full of perfect trees for my layout. The landscape of the stripmall complex was filled with literally million of trees that would work great on my various layouts. So after work I grabbed a trash bag and my trusty pocket knife and proceded to fill the bag, quickly under the cover of night. When I got home and had time to examine my booty, I found a treasuretrove of wealth!
Just this afternoon I was walking by the same plants and noticed that the early fall foliage was even nicer. The plants still had the little flowerettes still attached to them. All I would have to do is pluck off the out of scale leaves and dip them in a Modge Podge solution to set them for life. I might add a little Woodland Scenics ground foam to add variety. But they are pretty good fresh off the plant.
I am not sure what kind of plant they are, the garden guru at my store thinks it's call Sedom(sp?).
Here's a few I just ramdomly grabbed out of the bag from last fall.
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Here's a close-up of one of the taller stalks I cut. You can see it just over 1ft., but this could easily be modified.
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These are from this afternoon. You can see the extra foliage on them from the flowerettes. The flowers were bright pink when they were in bloom all summer. Now that fall is approaching, they have turned brown.
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Here's a medium sized one about 9" once put into the ground of the layout.
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So, what do you guys think? Worth the free price tag? I think so. I might have to bag these things up and Ebay them...Hmmm .
Just this afternoon I was walking by the same plants and noticed that the early fall foliage was even nicer. The plants still had the little flowerettes still attached to them. All I would have to do is pluck off the out of scale leaves and dip them in a Modge Podge solution to set them for life. I might add a little Woodland Scenics ground foam to add variety. But they are pretty good fresh off the plant.
I am not sure what kind of plant they are, the garden guru at my store thinks it's call Sedom(sp?).
Here's a few I just ramdomly grabbed out of the bag from last fall.
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Here's a close-up of one of the taller stalks I cut. You can see it just over 1ft., but this could easily be modified.
View attachment 7372
These are from this afternoon. You can see the extra foliage on them from the flowerettes. The flowers were bright pink when they were in bloom all summer. Now that fall is approaching, they have turned brown.
View attachment 7373
Here's a medium sized one about 9" once put into the ground of the layout.
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So, what do you guys think? Worth the free price tag? I think so. I might have to bag these things up and Ebay them...Hmmm .