Does anyone know where I can get sugarbush, a dried natural plant that is mentioned in the Dream-Plan-Build series for making trees? All I find at AC Moore and Michael’s (my local craft stores) are synthetic floral products that don’t cut for realism.
John
Try a flourist shop and see if they have some. I’m not familiar with sugarbush but maybe it’s used in floral arrangements.
Thank you. I’ll try a florist shop. From the lack of responses, I guess this is a dated tree-making material.
John
John - Without knowing just what episode of D-P-B you are referring too, nor recognizing the name “sugarbush” for any commonly employed floral arrangement product used for model railroading purposes, I suspect that it might be a local name for something along the lines of the dried floral product caspia, which together with several similar plants are known by more odd names than I’d care to attempt listing. Incidentally, a good piece of advice when visiting a local arts & crafts store, or florist, looking for dried floral products referred to on videos, or in the hobby magazines, is always try first to go by an item’s visual appearance (from magazine or video illustrations), rather than by its supposed name, as the latter often changes even store to store!.
CNJ831
Might THIS be what you’re talking about? It came up in a search for sugarbush and is known as creosote bush.
The Dream-Plan-Build DVD is: “Doug Tagsold’s D&RGW Silverton Branch,” and includes a Technique section called “Creating Quick Trees.”
I agree that what he refers to as “sugarbush” may be called something else. In any case, I can’t find anything at my local craft stores that looks anything like what is depicted in the DVD.
I’ll keep looking.
John
A Google search for sugarbush turns up many, many different types of plants that are known as sugarbush.
The most common type referenced that would most likely be available at a garden shop seems to be Rhus ovata, but even using this name there are many varieties.
Here’s a link to one source: http://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/plants/rhus-ovata
This one doesn’t seem like it would be good at all for making model trees.
Wikipedia calls sugarbush by the common name of Protea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sugarbush_Protea
and here, too, there are perhaps hundreds of varieties.
