Tag: troughs

(and a bonus on an inexpensive home-made rustic cement birdbath)

This old guy is done moving heavy planters around – especially the stoneware in which my hardy cacti and succulents look great – and I can’t afford real  tufa, which is a naturally-porous limestone that can be easily carved into slow-draining planting troughs. So I finally got around to making a lightweight faux stone trough out of an old hippy recipe called hypertufa.

While it certainly looks like aged stone, hypertufa is a hardened mix of readily-available ingredients that can be pressed over a pot-shaped form, easy to move around and can stay out all year.

My first attempt here took just a couple of hours and turned out pretty well, if I say so myself. Here is my step-by-step.

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