Flora of Mill Hill

So, the center house is supposedly the best-kept with older couple having time to do some lawn and garden work.  Addressed the lawn first with white glue painted on the yard area and fine earth colored turf from Woodland Scenics:

Then sprayed some extra control hair spray and sprinkled with WS green fine turf; finished with another spritz of hair spray.  If nothing else, the layout got a fairly pleasant aroma!

With plans for a wooded area behind the houses, a few trial trees were thrown together.  Some branches from decorations from Michael's wrapped with brown florist's tape, sprayed with medium green paint and dusted with WS green ground foam:

Used some acrylic gray and maple paint on trunk, but will likely go back and cover better.  Foliage is a little sparse. . . .

Then tried something from Internet suggesting use of grape vine for "arbor" wrapped with florist's tape.  In this case, used WS clump foliage and white glue for leaves.

Clump foliage didn't seem to want to stick real well and grape vine was a bit whop-sided.

Last try was grape vine with most of the individual stems (one per grape) removed.  Applied white glue to stems in this case (dipped clump foliage in glue for previous tree) and added reindeer moss:

The second tree was a bit "green" so out came the hair spray and some WS fine burnt grass; the last tree was a bit pale so hair spray and WS fine green grass.  These will definitely be forest trees and not be planted as landscape items.  BUT, it's a start.  Maybe I'll keep looking for the perfect arbor -- but I was trying to avoid buying any!