Plant Badges

**Semiomniscient** · 24th January 10, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

I'd say if you can't obtain a real or silk version of the clan plant badge, and you really want something stuck in your cap, then a silk version of your state flower, which for Utah is the Sego lily

would work just fine. Barring that, a silk dandelion looks really nice.

By the way, florist shops are a good source for silk flowers.

HAHA! I'm in Louisiana and I'd look like some kind of goober with a big ole' magnolia stuck in my bonnet. But for those whose state flowers are of reasonable size, I think this is a great idea, especially if you are in your state's tartan.

**fluter** · 24th January 10, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Semiomniscient

HAHA! I'm in Louisiana and I'd look like some kind of goober with a big ole' magnolia stuck in my bonnet.

Does it actually specify grandiflora, or will any ol' magnolia do?

I think you could pull it off, but you may not want to.

**Semiomniscient** · 25th January 10, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by fluter

Does it actually specify grandiflora, or will any ol' magnolia do?

I think you could pull it off, but you may not want to.

I only know of one magnolia that is the state flower and it's big... so yeah... and actually I don't think it'd even be possible considering the stem would likely bend, tear, or break my cockade or the badge. :-)

**Tobus** · 25th January 10, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Semiomniscient

HAHA! I'm in Louisiana and I'd look like some kind of goober with a big ole' magnolia stuck in my bonnet. But for those whose state flowers are of reasonable size, I think this is a great idea, especially if you are in your state's tartan.

I hadn't thought of that. If I do end up with a State of Texas bluebonnet tartan kilt, a bluebonnet (our State flower) would look very nice indeed.

Thank goodness you folks came up with that idea. Before that, I was contemplating how to affix a prickly pear cactus to my bonnet.

**Old Hippie** · 25th January 10, 01:22 PM

Well, fortunately -- or unfortunately, if you're an oak tree -- mistletoe is ubiquitous. Whomever came up with Clan Hay's badge got lucky. That said, aside from the fact that I can pick up fresh mistletoe at least once a year when it goes on sale in stores at Christmas, there's lots of plastic versions.

So I'm set, neener, neener.

I would like a reproduction of the gold, green enamel and pearls brooch I saw illustrated in Moncrieffe's book, in the Hay section. Hadn't thought about that for years. Either as a cap badge or as a kilt pin it'd be a stunner.

Of course, I also have the silk dandelion -- reminder of the Passing of the Torch kilt night in Victoria.

**KiltedChief** · 25th January 10, 05:18 PM

Oak leaves the plant badge of Clan Cameron.

**Standard** · 25th January 10, 07:28 PM

Illinois: Purple Violet and Big Bluestem Prairie Grass. Might not look too bad, but the Big Bluestem would sure stick up out of my bonnet!

**Jack Daw** · 26th January 10, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by Tobus

I hadn't thought of that. If I do end up with a State of Texas bluebonnet tartan kilt, a bluebonnet (our State flower) would look very nice indeed.

Thank goodness you folks came up with that idea. Before that, I was contemplating how to affix a prickly pear cactus to my bonnet.

Whatever you do, don't pick the bluebonnets along the highway.

**Tobus** · 26th January 10, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

Whatever you do, don't pick the bluebonnets along the highway.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not illegal to pick bluebonnets in Texas, unless they're in a designated (i.e. marked) wildflower zone or you're breaking some other law in the process (like trespassing). Bluebonnets are perfectly legal to pick, mow, etc. They are not protected, despite being the State flower.

Not that I would do it anyway; plenty of them grow on my 15 acre homestead, along with various other wonderful wildflowers.