Plant Badge: Heraldry for common Scots

[Dirk Skene]

Skene's is the wild cherry blossom. Traditionally we have never had a plant badge. The current chief's wife suggested it and the chief obliged. smart guy

[kiltedsawyer]

I think laurel is the plant badge for McLaren, so I was thinking of using this behind my clan badge......

(Had a picture of Stan Laurel here, but it didn't show up on the post....still struggling.)

Wallet size of course, I think an 8 x 10 might be a little too much,.....and really heavy with the frame and all.

[kiltimabar]

This thread needs to be updated--and bumped up--to note the adoption of the dandelion as the plant badge for the XMarks Clan!

[Panache]

This thread needs to be updated--and bumped up--to note the adoption of the dandelion as the plant badge for the XMarks Clan!

The announcement about the Official Plant Badge for XMTS can be found here:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/d...952/index.html

Here are a few of the Nor Cal Rabble sporting them:







Cheers

Jamie

[Donnie]

I've been wearing a sprig od mistletoe in my bonnett over a year now. I discovered long ago that the plant badge identified clans long before tartans did! Wonderful idea!

[Deil the Yin]

When I visited with the Clan Gregor in Scotland, it was VERY popular to place a sprig of the Scots Pine in our bonnets.
Technical Note: I was advised to wrap the broken end of the sprig in aluminum foil to keep any pine sap from getting in my bonnet.

In addition to being our plant badge, I was told it is also a sign of Jacobite sympathy to have a Scots pine growing in your garden (ie yard).

I'm guessing I'm gonna be a bit hard pressed to find Scots pine this far south, but maybe Loblolly will do? Errr... or not. I do have a sprig brought back from the mother country! Would anyone have a suggestion from preserving it, or rather making it permanently wearable? I thought maybe painting it and then covering it in some kind of clear lacquer or some such?

[SteveB]

The Dandelion makes sense as our clan plant, as like us, like it or not, we're everywhere.

[Deil the Yin]

The Dandelion makes sense as our clan plant, as like us, like it or not, we're everywhere.

Muckle kudos to the X-Marks crew for choosing such an apropos plant badge!

[NCMC]

Bump up post.

Does any one have any other technical notes on how to prepare plant bage? Are there general guidelines when placing a plant badge? I would hate to be that guy with a whole bush on a bonnet.

[McMurdo]

Bump up post.

Does any one have any other technical notes on how to prepare plant bage? Are there general guidelines when placing a plant badge? I would hate to be that guy with a whole bush on a bonnet.

I'd say take a look at photos of others or paintings and I'm sure you will get the idea, it's not like you want to go walking around with a tree behind your clan badge. I wear a silk dandelion behind the XMarks Badge. My clan buckler is a kilt pin on my clan tartan.