How does my garden grow

A little post on these cute little trees made last night.

I wanted to make some plants for the window ledge of the dining room which I also call 'the garden room' as between the wallpaper and some of the china collected it is fitting.

When I was up in Scotland this summer I picked this moss up from the pavement where it had Fallen from some trees. I felt it had potential for something. There were two distinct types of moss.

My collection of mini flower pots over the years. They are all real terra cotta and cost very little.

Here are a few I painted up to look like old ones. The long one is resin but takes paint well.

Ages ago I had tried rather unsuccessfully to 'age' some of these pots, taking too much care in the process but last night I just splotched and dabbed and voila!

This type of moss looks like sea coral so I painted a piece to later set on a black base to put in the Library which will have a slight 'cabinet de curiosity ' theme. The paint had the added advantage of hardening the moss making it easier to manipulate later.

And here are the plants ! I put some airclay into two matching pots to Anchor the trees.

I then rolled up small pieces of moss using wood glue to hold it in place then pushed in a short 'stalk' of florists wire in brown color. I dabbed on some green paint as the moss is quite brownish.

 I then checked the length and pushed the tree into the pot.

To simulate the ground you can use tea leaves from a tea bag as they are finer. I Simply painted brown the top of the 'soil'. I will redo these plants when it is nearer the time to decorate as his was mostly a test and another distraction.

The trees on the dining room window sill.

I has also thought of covering the moss balls in glue them covering them with dry tea leaves, not from a tea bag this time, then paint them in shades of green. Of course if you use this technique you don't need moss but perhaps small polystyrene balls or wooden or plastic beads.