Not only can you make plant containers for yourself, but you can also craft them gifts for family and friends since the ...

It you're the type of gardener who doesn't mind being up to your elbows in dirt and muck, and rather give a home-made gift for the holidays than one a store-bought one, then roll up your sleeves, grab ...

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 ...

Today’s article is for all those crafty gardeners and I’m speaking literally, not figuratively. If you’re creative, why not make your own containers to grow your plants in? Make them for yourself, and ...

In October, I made my first hypertufa troughs from a mix of peat moss, perlite, Portland cement, and water. Extremely durable once they set up, the resulting containers look similar to carved stone.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CORNWALL — The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum's Outdoor Discovery Center will have a hypertufa planter workshop at 10 a.m. May 4, hosted by Marion Dolan of Butterfly Botanicals. Hypertufa is an ...

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 ...

Rough stone containers in the garden give the appearance of old age with their weathered look. But if these chipped, mossy and worn planters, known as troughs or sinks, are made of hypertufa, their ...