Was gonna say what great celery that first picture was until I read your question :)  I too have had very good results with static poser props and those xfrog freebies are great too.  But having said that, I went in and edited a bunch of the veg trees and save them as vue objects with my settings, and they do look pretty good in forground with a little loving attention too.  That second bark is nice.

 

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