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 ...

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 ...

It's time to give your feathered friends a spa day. This DIY birdbath is budget-friendly, customizable, and will make your ...

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.

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 ...

Over the years, I've examined a dizzying number of howto garden books. One of the most intriguing I've come across has to be "Creating and Planting Garden Troughs" by Fingerut and Murfitt, priced at ...

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 ...

Making Hypertufa Planters, Creating Ceramic Pendants, Masonite Die Forming -- Learn "how to" this Saturday when three of our makers demonstrate their techniques. At 11:30 am Chris Hopp of Farmbrook ...

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Gardens, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., presents another hypertufa pot workshop, lead by instructor Steve Gerischer, from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 10 in the Ayers Hall area.