Plants and flowers
There are many sources of realistic miniature flowers, bushes and vegetable plants to suit a variety of scales. They’re suitable for adorning gardens, allotments or public spaces, such as around station forecourts or platforms .
These products are manufactured from a wide variety of materials, including laser cut card, plastic, scatter material affixed to a foliage net and scatter material affixed to clumps and strips of grass. Some of these come ready-assembled while others require some assembly and some optional painting before they can be ‘planted’.
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Busch plants and vegetables
PROS: Look good once weathered. Large range, so plenty of choice
CONS: Fiddly to assemble
Product: Busch plants and vegetables (various)
Price: from £4.54 per pack
Availability:
www.goldenvalleyhobbies.co.uk
Scale: ‘N’ ‘OO’
Busch offers a large range of miniature crops, flowers and other vegetation including sunflowers, grape vines, flowers, ferns and wheat fields. Each kit contains a number of plants on different coloured plastic sprues with each plant made up of one, two or three separate pieces. For example, two parts make up the mushrooms – one plain light brown, the other with painted red and white tops.