Oh! Fantastic job! What brand are these/how did you make them?

Thanks for including the base manufacturer too. I bought a bunch of tree bases from 4ground, but they're quite pricey.

Looks great

Many years ago I made trees out of grape stems.I discovered dried grape stems were robust and quite springy. The nodes where the fruit attached was useful for attaching stuff.



I tended to use reindeer moss I think



I'm not sure if this is any interest but is was a fairly cheap approach and also good if you like grapes

Aye I still have them and they haven't rotted. The key with using natural material is making sure it is fully dry. I just left them lying around for a few weeks.

I often used different types of living moss, I harvested it and again let it fully dry out sometimes for a month or so. Once it was fully dry you could overpaint it and it looked like effective small bushes.

Dried herbs can of course be used straight out of the container and is an effective and cheap ground-litter. I found mixed herbs was great as a general one and rosemary because of its nature looked like small sticks.

I also used the small woody stems from bushes in the garden. Lavender is a good one as the stems of the flowers dry easily. Again fully dried out. I thought why bother sculpting it when nature has done it for you.

I often used GW Inks (no longer available) to enhance the basic stem to some degree. I also used to use diute PVA glue to bind things together if I thought they were fragile in natural scenery building. You can overpaint it easily enough.