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    Westerham, + Weald. Tarmac surface for the platform

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    Teloxys Aristata or Sea Foam, trees to you and me. Early on in the year I was looking at the trees on Brasted and thought that they were looking  a bit rough and ready, I looked at the price of replacing them with ready made till I saw that for the quantity that would be required a lottery win of quite a size would be needed. So being a tight wad  (read Mrs W Station) I decided to grow my own, a purchase of Teloxys Aristata seeds from this link provided me with a forest in a packet for about £4

    https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_1235a_teloxys_aristata_seeds  

    Now comes the boring bit, plant seeds in a large pot filled with free draining soil and wait 6months. ......................................... 6months have now passed and your seeds will now look like this if you are lucky.

     

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    Harvest and hang them up to dry for a week or so.

     

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    Spray matt brown

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    The next part is to plant the trees, which I did by cutting all the old foliage off the existing trees leaving just the trunk and some branches, and then placing the new branches over the old trunks to form the new trees. The foliage was made by first spraying the top of the trees with firm hold hair laquer then a base coat of 2mm fibre were sieved on,  next another spray of laquer and a final layer of coarse turf was applied by hand and another coat of laquer to secure. You need a sunny spot for the seeds as they are a desert plant and can suffer from dampening.

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    And some pictures of the finished trees, I wanted it to look like neglected scrubby woodland.

     

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    Happy gardening. All the best Adrian.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.

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    11 hours ago, jafcreasey said:

     

    The one remnant that still stands on the former station site?

    https://www.westerhamheritage.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/goods-yard-crane-base-view-towards-station

    Hi, I know which view I prefer, gone forever when it could have been a preserved line. All the best Adrian. 

    Roughly the same view of what was.

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    Little Muddle

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    The list of dangerous fun things that you could do when young in the fifties is endless. Melting lead soldiers over your mums gas stove in a  saucepan to make nothing in particular, banger guns, bangers in toy aircraft, bangers in drains anything else that you could do with bangers Wells cannon were the best bangers. A thunderflash put under a upturned metal dustbin, you would be surprised how high that can go. Jetex motors. Mixing two different types of toilet cleaner to see what happens. It's a wonder any of us are still here to tell the tale. All the best Adrian. Ps don't try any of this at home children.

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