Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Spruce / Sanja Kostic Hypertufa planters bring the look of stone into your garden without all the weight of rocks.

When I was a kid, troughs were for horses. Now when I say "trough," I'm not talking about the large, galvanized metal watering holes. I'm talking about the rugged-looking, cement-based containers that ...

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.

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 ...

Once you get past their odd name, the homemade faux-stone planters known as hypertufa containers have a place in any garden and make for a perfect spring project. About as easy (or hard) to make as ...

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 ...

I was starting to like this.There I was, up to the elbows in a mixture of Portland cement, sand, peat moss and water, mixing it up and kneading it like bread dough. Or Play-Doh. Or mud pies. I was ...

A century ago, rectangular stone troughs dotted the landscape in rural England, where they served as water basins for horses. Then, as modern farmers and their horses moved to metal troughs, stone ...