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I normally use soft ruscus to get height/length in big arrs but it's got so expensive it's hard to use now, just wondering what you guys use?

contorted willow.... but for some reason my supplies are running low

i use steel grass for more height and willow when its around, palm leaves are quite good too and cheaper than soft ruscus, for pedestals i use ivy as well to keep the foliage price down

Yep pretty much the same as apple.

Pheonix palm leaves are good and aspidistra leaves, twisted ting ting can be a good alternative to willow too

kaz

Cocculus? Aroid Palm? Hemlock? Laurel? Bay?

Just a few suggestions from my handy 'Foliage for Florists' book

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I use cineria euc quite alot. I also use a lot of steel grass.

in the shop we do use lots of soft ruscus but i like to use good ole phormium in peds i think it gives a good shape to the top of arrangment,but i also use bay,willow or palm

for our pedestals we use loads of aspidistra, monstera, fatsia, phormium, also philo, steel grass .

Have they been put to other uses?

didn't you know rosa...she ties bundles together on a long stick for brooms and sells them .... or was it for whips? oi, pussy, I can't remember now

As far as height goes, how high d'you want to go? At the mo I scour the gardens for grasses (pennisetum, china etc) but if I need to go higher still I start cutting the trees!! Well, at least some branches/twigs, take the leaves off if I know they don't last and build up the optical illusion of height. I LOVE using apple trees twigs/branches, especially those from an old apple tree. They have so much movement and character! Fall and winter stuff is dominated with beautiful craggly apple tree twigs!

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