I have been looking for a good type of small brush to make trees for almost six years here. In California there was all kinds of great brush for trees. Here? Not so much. I may have found it in my own back yard.
There are palms here that spread seeds every month. They start out as a large (3 ft,) pod. Then this shoot comes out and if you don't cut it off it gets huge and starts blooming and then dropping thousands of seeds. That's whats on the palm behind my model tree in the second picture. I started cutting the shoots early on. When they dry they get amazingly hard. They feel like wood and they are hard to cut, even the smallest of shoots. The hard shoot looks like the one I'm holding. It's about two and half ft.. long at this point. I cut a small sections off the pod and glued foam for leaves to it.
My questions is, does it look like any tree you would find in nature? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Don
