Plant Badges Revisted

**pbutts** · 26th January 13, 01:37 PM

It looks do-able. They're a ground cover like blueberries....here's the first site I found: http://www.cranberrycreations.com/growing.html

**Tim Little** · 26th January 13, 02:18 PM

Don't get too bogged down!

**pbutts** · 26th January 13, 02:20 PM

Cha chaa....I set that one up.

**Destin_scot** · 26th January 13, 05:25 PM

good luck, they need to be grown in a fairly acid soil, down around 4.5, if possible. If you don't have natively acid soil, it can be really hard to get the pH that low. Pretty much the same requirements for blueberries down here.

**piperdbh** · 26th January 13, 07:50 PM

Tilling lots of rotted mulch and leaves into the ground wouldn't be a bad start on lowering the pH of your plot. Let us know how it all turns out.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 27th January 13, 02:24 AM

Natural plants are fantastic.

Wouldn't it be great to have articicial plants available for all clans though ?

Best,

Robert

**sailortats** · 27th January 13, 06:33 AM

[QUOTE=Ancienne Alliance;1147310]Natural plants are fantastic.

Wouldn't it be great to have articicial plants available for all clans though ?

/QUOTE]

Yes, Robert, it would. My plant badge for Clan Stewart is the thistle and that plant is forbidden entry into California. It is considered a pest because it reproduces so easily and would be dangerous to the local plant life.

**pbutts** · 27th January 13, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Destin_scot

good luck, they need to be grown in a fairly acid soil, down around 4.5, if possible. If you don't have natively acid soil, it can be really hard to get the pH that low. Pretty much the same requirements for blueberries down here.

Good tip. We've got blueberries started, but I keep meaning to do a ph test.

Piberdbh, all the fall leaves go into the beds in November and we usually get more to mix in when spring comes around.

.....we'll see.

**Thomas H** · 28th January 13, 05:51 AM

A place to buy fresh plant badges would be a good idea . they would have to be overnighted . But clan Ferguson is Pine - so I just cut some off the tree in my back yard
any time I need to wear them .

**creagdhubh** · 28th January 13, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by Thomas H

A place to buy fresh plant badges would be a good idea . they would have to be overnighted . But clan Ferguson is Pine - so I just cut some off the tree in my back yard
any time I need to wear them .

I buy fresh white heather (one of the plant badges of the Clan Macpherson, along with boxwood) online from the same Inverness-shire based company that supplies it to us during the annual Clan Macpherson Gathering in Badenoch. I only buy during the blooming season, otherwise they have dried, white heather available, which just isn't the same. You can buy individual sprigs, sprays and even larger bunches for wreaths. Of course, Scottish white heather isn't the plant badge of every Highland clan, but generally speaking, it is considered lucky.

Cheers,