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Using Real Plants For Model Railroad Scenery
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“This morning I pruned my daughter’s Nandina (sacred bamboo) plant, being careful to set aside the spent seed bracts. They make great tree armatures very similar to sea-foam and crepe myrtle. I have 2 shopping bags full of trees which I am donating to one of the local hobby shops for use on their layout or giving to customers.”
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Thanks for sharing the video’s on China, having been there it brings back vary happy memories, I went to Wuhan and Beijing, I spent a month there and it still was not enough, it’s a fantastic place to visit if you like culture and to “people watch” if I could afford it I would go tomorrow.
Thanks also for all the posts, I find them very useful, and I love looking at all those fantastic pictures of layouts, so realistic.
no matter what scale you are using the size of the live plants can be as exciting as a regular garden railway. I first joined a club I had a module with nothing on it where I had cut the decking and lowered it for river and creaks for later. They wanted me to go to a showing right in the middle of my project and I didn’t want to go unfinished so I had seen some young bedding plants and decided to fill those river bottoms and underpasses with these little pots of green. When I arrived the guys gave me some dirty looks as what I was doing was just not right. But actually It was just like running a Big G scale in a garden only I was running HO. I have since built a Portable garden railway using the tracks I had under the Christmas tree, A Styrofoam tree stump was formed in the middle and the trains run around the tree stump. Flowers , plants, bugs and critters make it real like in a real garden in other words a miniature garden railway in HO. I tried to put an article in Garden Railways Magazine about it and they turned it down saying it didn’t meet their mission statement for the magazine. What do you have to have? Real Dirt. I have had a lot of compliments on it at train shows and the magazine has no idea what they missed. from Newman Atkinson