Contents of a 1:12 scale California poppies kit
I went micro today, and made up one of the flower kits from The Miniature Garden Center. Those dots you see are 3/16-inch (4.7 mm) in diameter.
Inspiration: volunteer poppies near the herb garden
California poppies might be my favorite flowering plant. If it wasn’t for freesias. Or peonies. Or coneflowers.
The kit assembled, with some variations.
Because these will be growing on a windswept roof, I cut the two-inch long stem wires in half. California poppies are rarely leggy.
Waiting to be planted on the living roof
Even though California poppies are too delicate and wild to be a good cut flower, they’ll be a nice spot of color in building tableaux. I made more eucalyptus branches, too. Come sit and have a glass of orange juice, and enjoy the morning light.
Oh also, this is the whole of the background picture I used in the deck extension shot. It was taken at sundown on the aforementioned cliffs at Mussel Rock. There was a brisk wind that lifted Lula’s ears as she leaned into it.
Lula reading the smell stories on the wind, December 2014
Your scale reference here is that she was a 130-pound (59 kilo) Mastiff mix (Dogue de Bordeaux and Bullmastiff), and she died two weeks after this walk. We miss her.
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I enjoyed this posting and loved seeing Lula’s ears flapping away!
Thanks! and I’m glad you like seeing highlights of the process.
My favourite flower!
I am a relatively new reader of your blog and I have to say I find it quite beguiling.
Best of luck with your contest build – I know it will be lovely!
Thanks, Barbara. I’m charmed :)
I love Lula’s ears too, I’m so sorry for your loss. :(
Bennie, thank you for your kindhearted words. Her ears were very expressive :)