Instant Flora

Lucky Reptile Flora Mat

I don't claim originality for this, I first spotted it on a YouTube video whilst looking for ideas for making garden plants. 

It's a plastic mat for use in vivariums, about 1 foot square ( that`s 30cm in the new fangled measuring), and costs around £10, tho I have seen it quite a lot cheaper.

So, 1 mat gets you around 200 of these

or 200 of these

and about 1000 of these

Which can be chopped up into an awful lot of individual plant stems.

Here is an example flower bed using the product:

The red and yellow poppy like plants are disks of coloured paper made with a hole punch and crumpled around the point of a pencil, then glued to the top of individual flora mat 'stems'
The purple flowers to the front are individual stems dipped in glue then lilac scatter material.
You can also just dip the tips in paint for a quite passable effect.
Same goes for the other little multi coloured plants, they are snipped off bits of the lighter coloured 'centre'
The tall purple plants are simply old paintbrush bristles dipped in glue and scatter.

The brickwork is Oasis, simply scribed and painted with red car primer.

Here's another example:

This time the walls are made from cork tile and the whole top of the Flora Mat plant has been used.