Looking at the front view, the pinky-purple fronds are brass etched foliage. I\'ve used similar ones, which I got from Hasslefree as Thunderhawker mentioned. I think all the vines and tiny green leaves on the base have been sculpted to match the vines and leaves sculpted on the figure. There might be some sprigs of dried moss on there too, can\'t quite tell.
The purple flowers just below the feet of the mini look like some I have marked \'candy tuft\'. Varieties called gyp, mini gyp and caspia are also suitably sized for use on minis. You might bring a mini with you when you shop for dried flowers, it\'s easy to think something is small enough out of context when often it will be too large. The dried flowers on this look to be either naturally coloured or coloured by the manufacturer, but it is possible to paint dried flowers or enhance them with paint.
Dried flowers can be on the fragile side. Generally you can work with individual blossoms, so even if they fall apart to the touch you can glue on the parts that fell off. Some should be sturdy enough to handle as sprigs. But overall I would reserve use of dried flowers for display pieces more than game pieces that will get handled a lot. Brass etched stuff is sturdier, but you still want to try to avoid having it near the edge of the base or other parts that will get handled if it\'s going to be handled.
In the US in my area, I\'ve found Michael\'s to be the best place to buy dried flowers. I once found some mini gyp really cheap at Joann\'s, but i haven\'t seen small enough flowers there any time since. I\'ve gotten stuff at Hobby Lobby a few times too.
fieldarchy uses dried flowers often, you might look through her gallery for other examples.
I\'ve sort of \'built\' my own plants with dried flowers sometimes. The head of
this \'rose\' is a large gyp blossom, the leaves are another type of dried flower glued on to the stem. Both have been painted. The
flowering bush on this one is Woodland Scenics foliage with flower blossoms glued on. The bouquet is one type of flower for the flowers, another for the leaves, all wrapped around with sewing thread which was then coated with white glue.
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Necrotales site has some fantastic tutorials on base work - mushrooms, making leaves from paper, all kinds of cool stuff.
I just saw some confetti that could be bent and painted to make cool leaves and plants.
