How to Make Hypertufa; join in the fun and learn how to make this unique garden craft; use these instructions to make troughs, pinch pots and many more great hypertufa projects
Today, I’ll show you how to make just about anything you can imagine with hypertufa using inexpensive materials you can buy from your closest home center. I’ll also show you all of the many ways you can use this versatile material to achieve various different textures and finishes without much effort. What is Hypertufa? Tufa is […]
A guide to uses for hypertufa troughs, as well as the easiest way to make and shape hypertufa for your use in your lawn and garden areas.
Hypertufa is a mix of concrete and other elements that is lightweight, easy to work with, can be molded or even carved, and is a perfect DIY project for both beginner and experienced crafters. You can create pots, containers, art... ok, we will just let these cool DIY hypertufa projects speak for themselves, ok?
Today, I’ll show you how to make just about anything you can imagine with hypertufa using inexpensive materials you can buy from your closest home center. I’ll also show you all of the many ways you can use this versatile material to achieve various different textures and finishes without much effort. What is Hypertufa? Tufa is […]
How to Cure Hypertufa correctly; give your project the best chance of surviving frost, rough handling, use and abuse; tips to properly curing your project...
Containers made of a portland cement mixture lend texture and interest to a garden.
Planters for your container garden can weigh heavy on your pocketbook, but this DIY project offers an affordable—and lightweight—option.
Sealing hypertufa is the way I am going to go about it. I feel that a good hypertufa pot is breathable with its texture and structure basically constructed to
With this DIY hypertufa planter tutorial you can inexpensively make your very own garden containers out of concrete!
Do you use anything for reinforcing hypertufa? Is it necessary? If you do use reinforcement, what do you use? I can tell you what and when I use fibers or
Today, I’ll show you how to make just about anything you can imagine with hypertufa using inexpensive materials you can buy from your closest home center. I’ll also show you all of the many ways you can use this versatile material to achieve various different textures and finishes without much effort. What is Hypertufa? Tufa is […]
How to Cure Hypertufa correctly; give your project the best chance of surviving frost, rough handling, use and abuse; tips to properly curing your project...
This is the first in a series of How To posts inspired by good friend and fellow Tennessee blogger, Gail of Clay and Limestone. She suggested a post be written on how to make the concrete balls tha…
This is the first in a series of How To posts inspired by good friend and fellow Tennessee blogger, Gail of Clay and Limestone. She suggested a post be written on how to make the concrete balls tha…
How to choose Hypertufa Molds; they can be as simple as a piece of drycleaners poly film, or as complex as a salvaged basket
Learn how to create a planter made with hypertufa, a material that has an ancient, hand-hewn quality. They are perfect for alpines, succulents, mosses and more.
Knock off of Restoration Hardware's Spheres - using concrete and lighting globes from the thrift store, a bargain at $10 for five of them! See the simple how-to…
Add a unique and creative touch to your outdoor space with these easy-to-make DIY garden concrete leaves. Read our guide for more details!
Making a big hypertufa trough is a little harder than the small ones. I made a 2ft by 4ft by 1ft trough. The weight is the a problem. Heavy! Find the place
How to Make Hypertufa; join in the fun and learn how to make this unique garden craft; use these instructions to make troughs, pinch pots and many more great hypertufa projects
How To Make Concrete Mushrooms - DIY Tutorials
A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I learned how to make concrete leaf castings to put in our gardens. Our instructor was Roberta Palmer, who sells her leaves all over Portland and also holds little how-to workshops in her own backyard. Roberta has her castings tucked throughout her garden. Some of them are left natural concrete, and allowed to weather and collect moss. Others are beautifully painted in gradated colors. This leaf is approximately 15" across. Her yard is lush with big-leafed plants grown specifically to use in her castings. She grows varieties that are quite large, heavily veined, and highly textured. Her garden plots are framed with wonderful arbors and collected treasures. She tucks old ladders and tools among the plants-- so charming! Here the rungs act as shelves for her handmade concrete planters. Roberta walked us through the steps involved in making the concrete leaves, including mixing the concrete, adding colorant, mounding sand, choosing leaves, working with the underside of the leaf, building up the concrete, smoothing the bottom with a brush, and adding a copper fitting (if we wanted to put our cast leaf on a copper pipe pedestal, for a raised bird bath or feeder). Finally, I got to try my hand at it. Here I am, hard at work on my leaf (sorry, can't recall the name of it): Roberta suggested not going all the way to the leaf's edge, but rather making a scalloped finish with small adjacent balls of concrete. (Oh my, I do believe it's time to touch up my roots...) We took our leaves (I made three) home, still on their sand mounds in the sturdy cardboard boxes, covered in plastic, where we are to allow them to 'cure' for several weeks. I peeled away the green leaves a few days ago, and this is what they now look like: Here's the same leaf, with its scalloped edge. That same leaf. I built up the pile of sand so it came out deep and cone-shaped. Notice the copper fitting inserted at the bottom; I think this will be a little bird feeder on a pedestal. My second leaf (rhubarb), just a small little guy to tuck in my yard somewhere. We added a reddish colorant to the concrete to give it a slight terra cotta tint. This was my third leaf, a hosta. Roberta helped me curl the tip over an extra lump of sand to add an 'elfin' feel to this casting. Again, fitted for a copper-pipe pedestal. Love that cute curled tip! And there you have it: my adventures in the garden of concrete leaf castings. When they are fully cured, I'll show you their final resting spots out in the yard. Added bonus: I don't need a green thumb to keep them looking pretty!
Concrete decorations for the yard, especially birdbaths, are heavy and immobile due to the weight. A hypertufa birdbath looks like concrete but is more lightweight and easier to manage. Use any container as a mold for a birdbath. Look around, find a design that is preferable, and make a hypertufa birdbath.
Hypertufa is a cement-based mixture that is as versatile as it is strong. This incredibly durable material can be molded into any desired shape or size. Hypertufa is a great option to get the look of stone without all the weight. Plus, it can withstand all the outdoor elements and it only gets better with […]
With plants spilling over the edges of it, concrete takes on a whole new feeling. Here are ten examples of built in concrete planters bursting with life.
Portland cement is the desired ingredient for making hypertufa pots, but sometimes it is difficult to decide which of those bags you need. I will help. But after questioning, it seems that the most likely culprit is not starting with the main ingredient of Portland cement. For a great hypertufa project, you need Portland cement. This is the ingredient which "hardens" and forms the trough or container you are making. ( It's really a chemical process of crystallization, but we won't get all technical.)
DIY Concrete Head Planter
In the continuing series of posts in the category of How To, may we present the instructions, with accompanying photos, of the way we, here at the Fairegarden, go about making leaf castings? Let us…
Collect your rhubarb leaves and make a bunch of stepping stones when you harvest. Impressive Rhubarb Leaves Concrete Pathway!
Sealing hypertufa is the way I am going to go about it. I feel that a good hypertufa pot is breathable with its texture and structure basically constructed to
A towel planter lets you reuse left over concrete into a decorative and space saving container for different plants. Craft one with our guide!
Make your own DIY concrete garden spheres! We did, and it turned out to be a fun project that cost less than $15 for three decorative garden balls.
Today, I’ll show you how to make just about anything you can imagine with hypertufa using inexpensive materials you can buy from your closest home center. I’ll also show you all of the many ways you can use this versatile material to achieve various different textures and finishes without much effort. What is Hypertufa? Tufa is […]
How To Make Concrete Mushrooms - DIY Tutorials
