Super-cheap Chinese trees

[Curis]

I agree with jafo.  Trees aren't mass produced by nature – variety is natural.

These look great!  I'm inspired to have an eBay trawl you've made them look so good.

[Vagabond]

Not one of the trees in my garden matches any of the others., in shape or colour or size.  Even in our local wood there is vast variation 

I think you will find that all the trees in your garden do match, they have branches and leaves or needles, they are constructed in the same way even if to you they look different.

Whereas model trees are not constructed in the same way. Some are made with horse hair and flocked, some are made with sponge, picked about and dyed, some are made like bottle brushes and some are made with clump foliage and there are many other methods. They each attempt to simulate a real tree but in a different way.

I personally don't think generally that different methods of manufacture go well on a table.

It is not a question of all trees are the same, patiently they are not but different manufacturers methods of producing trees do not always match, irrespective of it being a big tree a little tree, deciduous or coniferous.

I think these trees look good but I would not put them on a table and expect them to sit well with my sponge trees or my horsehair trees because it only  brings diversity and variety of manufacturing method not of tree type.

Hopefully I have explained my comment for you.

[FierceKitty]

"patiently"?