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 ...

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 ...

KENNEWICK -- Have bare spots in your landscaping? Want to learn how to grow veggies, install drip irrigation or plant containers? Drop by the Washington State University Extension Master Gardener's ...

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 ...

If you garden to any extent, sooner or later you will encounter a hypertufa planter. If you are unfamiliar with hypertufa, it is a lightweight stone-like material made from Portland cement, peat moss ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s article is for all those crafty gardeners and I’m speaking literally, not figuratively. If you’re creative, why not make your own containers to grow your plants in? Make them for yourself, and ...