Real Life Spiddal Sticks Options

[tegeus-Cromis]

I did think that Spiddal Sticks were based on globe artichokes after they seeded, based on one I saw in a friend's garden, but I've just found about about the Proteaceae (includes a lot of Southern hemisphere species under genus Protea). Some of the images this Google search throws up look just about right:

Burnt Protea

The clever thing is that (like the globe artichoke), those 'petals' are not petals, they're the outer coating of a fruit - and proteas only open up and seed in response to fire, just right for an Oblivion plane, plus the seeds depend on nutrients released by the fire. (Love to grow some but not sure I want to set fire to the garden every year. What would the neighbours say?) Anyway, I'm pretty sure that's where Beth got those from now.

Now if I could just find some harrada, an excellent hedging plant I'd say, though there is the possibility of criminal charges - 'botanical assault' or something...

This post has been edited by tegeus-Cromis: Sep 8 2015, 09:09 PM

[Acadian]

Nice find!

Every time I'm in the snack isle at the grocery store, I look for imp chips. No luck so far though.

And my liquor store boasts over a thousand types of wine. But do you think they carry Tamika's?

[tegeus-Cromis]

And my liquor store boasts over a thousand types of wine. But do you think they carry Tamika's?

Well you could always print off some labels, paste over, and pretend. Thankfully, though, we do actually have ***Cheap Wine***. Yay!

(Wish I had some sculptural skills; I'd have a half-size Oblivion Gate (fibreglass, I suppose) sitting in the middle of the lawn and a room lit by Welkynd Stones. Probably best to leave out the blade traps and such, though...)

[ghastley]

(Wish I had some sculptural skills; I'd have a half-size Oblivion Gate (fibreglass, I suppose) sitting in the middle of the lawn and a room lit by Welkynd Stones. Probably best to leave out the blade traps and such, though...)

Now delete the lawn - a proper flaming Oblivion gate would do that for you anyway - and you might have just what Californians need to conserve water. If the welkynds work, they can conserve electricity too.

[tegeus-Cromis]

Now delete the lawn - a proper flaming Oblivion gate would do that for you anyway - and you might have just what Californians need to conserve water.

Well, hosting a live gate does have some drawbacks - you can end up with a very nasty and recurrent scamp infestation for a start. Can really damage local property values, that.