Plant Badge: Heraldry for common Scots

**ardchoille** · 16th September 07, 10:23 PM

D'oh! I should have thought about wikipedia. Thanks MacWage

**MacWage** · 16th September 07, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by ardchoille

D'oh! I should have thought about wikipedia. Thanks MacWage

(I had to look it up too. But did so only AFTER I asked the SAME THING earlier tonight-> Also, why I found it SO fast!)

**ardchoille** · 16th September 07, 10:27 PM

MacWage, come visit us.. I have a yard full of those trees!

**MacWage** · 16th September 07, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by ardchoille

MacWage, come visit us.. I have a yard full of those trees!

Spoken like a TRUE MacGregor!

**Dirk Skene** · 17th September 07, 06:04 AM

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** · 17th September 07, 08:20 AM

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** · 9th June 08, 02:59 PM

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** · 9th June 08, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by 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!

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** · 9th June 08, 04:36 PM

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** · 10th June 08, 07:20 PM

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?