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Dumpster Diver Decor & Home Craft Insanity by MmeExxxedrin

Turning Light-up Christmas Deer into Quick Topiary

top01.JPG (118998 bytes)  top02.JPG (111332 bytes) A pair of light-up lawn deer are found in a dumpster, and their lights removed.

top03.JPG (117465 bytes) top04.jpg (131057 bytes) The remaining wire frames are spray-painted green.

top05.jpg (140055 bytes) top06.JPG (120799 bytes) Sphagnum moss is stuffed into the frames.

 PICT0037.JPG (132381 bytes) Fake plants are twisted onto the outside to form filler between the real leaves.

Topiary Basics : The Art of Shaping Plants in Gardens & Containers You always wanted to clip and train trees into animal and geometric shapes when you were a kid, why not do so now that you are an adult, and nobody will stop you?
How to Grow A Chair : The Art of Tree Trunk Topiary

Gardens of Obsession : Eccentric and Extravagant Visions

The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery

 

PICT0047.JPG (272601 bytes)  PICT0046.JPG (302780 bytes)  The frames are moved atop a place with lots of 3-4' Alaskan willow sprouts.  The willow is twisted around and up the legs of the frames, and woven in and out between the fake leaves and wires like vines. 

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Willow sproutings are also wound up metal garden arches.  Most trellis type plants can't grow as perennials in Alaska, but the local willow sprouts that come up on their own make a great free substitute.

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This page last edited on 01/03/2007