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 ...

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 ...

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 a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steve Gerischer was kneeling over a plastic tub filled with a brown concoction. His sleeves were rolled up and he was almost elbow-deep into the mix, but then he paused to smile as he tried to explain ...

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.

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 ...

A lot of gardeners grow plants in pots. Some start their own flowers from seed. A few even make their own potting mix using homemade compost. But not many make the pots the plants grow in. A group of ...

Ed Glover, from the North American Rock Garden Society, will present a program on hypertufa troughs and rock gardens at the Dodge County Master Gardeners' meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 28. The meeting ...