If you are one who likes to landscape and scenic your layout, you know that one of the major expenses is trees. One or two trees are affordable, but a landscape is usually filled with trees and the expense to do that warps the mind and drains the wallet and bank account. I know that this has been posted on threads before, but I thought since there are so many new folks on the forum, it would be time to post it once more.
One source for trees comes from your flower garden (or someone else's garden) and the time is now to harvest your potential trees. Many folks have planted Sedum as an ornamental plant in their yards. The flowers in September and October kind of looked like a pink or light purple broccoli head. Now, they are dried up and look brown....it is the perfect time to collect them and begin tree making.
I cut them and put them in large dog food bags to work on them in the spring. I spray the tops with some green spray paint (this is really optional since you are going to cover it in flocking anyway). After it dries, I spray on some spray adhesive and then shake some flocking the sprayed top part of the tree. Voila...a tree. I use different colors of green on different trees to give it a variety of tree species look.
Are these trees free? Well, no...you still have to buy the spray glue, the flocking, and possibly the spray paint. But, I can get a lot of trees that look reasonable for an affordable price. Here are some of the results. Oh by the way, Sedum is a perennial, so more trees every year!
