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Applied Imagination - model buildings from plant materials - Meijer Gardens


monkeyranch

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The company Applied Imaginations custom builds some neat structures for model railroads out of dried plant and fungi materials such as leaves, twigs, acorn caps, bark, pressed flowers, and mushroom caps. They are featured at a lot of botanical gardens and often model local buildings.

Here are some photos I took at Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids.

Downtown Grand Rapids

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Hospital (L) and Van Andel Institute ®

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Hydrangea flowers

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Delonix pods as roof

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Garden conservatory

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Coccoloba leaves for roof?

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Shelf mushroom for steps

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Voight House in Heritage Hill Historic District, one of the larger areas of preserved Victorians in the U.S.

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Lighthouse and two more

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Check out Applied Imagination's website and google images for more cool structures at other botanical gardens.

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