You know when you stumble on something you’ve never heard of before and then you start seeing it everywhere? Well, meet “hypertufa” — your next new eye worm. Truth is hypertufa — a decorative concrete ...

Twenty members and two guests of the Foothills Herb Society defied snowy weather on March 12 to study growing and using herbs. Nancy Baxter gave a program on how to make an artificial stone pot ...

Always on the lookout for quality plant pots that don’t cost a fortune? Making your own is cheap, fun and easy. You may never buy one again after trying this method for simulating aged, weathered ...

In this era of do-it-yourself projects, producing plants by taking cuttings and creating a hypertufa planter for them to grow in is at the top of the list for money savings for the home gardener. For ...

SANTA CRUZ — Hypertufa (pronounced hyper-toofa) is a manmade stone made from various aggregates bonded together with cement. It’s perfect for making long lasting garden containers. It looks like rock, ...

The name comes from “tufa,” a porous, lightweight, soft rock. It’s easy to gouge out a planting pocket that can be filled with potting soil and hens-and-chicks or other sedums. Let time put a patina ...

A crowd of people young and old filled seats at tables covering the multipurpose room at Sahara West Library on May 24 to make lightweight garden pots for their summer plants. The pots were made of ...

Papercrete vessels, like hypertufa pots, are waterproof, but they are lighter in weight. Before use, the newly made container needs to dry out of the weather. In winter, it may take as long as two ...

With three ingredients and a little bit of time, you can make hypertufa pots to put out in your garden. They are concrete-based and should last through the Central Georgia winter. The Master Gardeners ...

As I look for inspiration (and a way to become more interested in my garden), I realized that finding some DIY projects to spruce up my yard might be just the key. As I browse for garden ideas, I find ...