Looking for realistic pine boughs
Andrea McVey
4 years ago
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4 years agoAndrea McVey
4 years agoHere ya go! I apologise for the photo. It is from the sale listing. But it gives you a sense of it.
My office has an ‘olive grove’ that has stumps with fake foliage. Looks surprisingly real. (See additional photos.)
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4 years agoInteresting idea but I think to buy the artificial sprays individually would cost a lot of money and attaching them to the tree stump could be quite tricky. You could possibly pick up a second hand Christmas tree. There are some fairly realistic ones around and you could use the branches off that. The trick is to make it look like a tree, Christmas trees tend to have one very tall and straight central trunk and the boughs and leaves spread away from it like fingers. I think you could get away with a Scots pine lookalike tho (see pic). Alternatively I like Maths wife’s idea of using vines that trail down instead. Willow garlands might look good. Out of interest I looked up how much an artificial tree like the one in the office is and for a similar size is about £4000 ish. Ouch!
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