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 ...

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 ...

Question: I recently was reading an old garden magazine at the doctor's office about making your own concrete planter. I was going to ask about copying it, but forgot and now the magazine is not there ...

Question: I recently was reading an old garden magazine at the doctor’s office about making your own concrete planter. I was going to ask about copying it, but I forgot. Now the magazine is not there.

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 ...

Hypertufa sounds like a plant disease, but it's not; it's something that you might want to bring into your garden. The name comes from tufa, a porous, lightweight, soft rock. It's easy to gouge out a ...

Over the years, I've examined a dizzying number of howto garden books. One of the most intriguing I've come across has to be "Creating and Planting Garden Troughs" by Fingerut and Murfitt, priced at ...

Hypertufa sounds like a plant disease, but it’s not; it’s something that you might want to bring into your garden. The name comes from “tufa,” a porous, lightweight, soft rock. It’s easy to gouge out ...

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 ...