Make Your Own Garden Pots With Hypertufa

Today’s feature tip is from TimpyWorks with their instructions on Hypertufa 101 and Hypertufa 201

This first lesson will help you learn how to modify a mold and will get you thinking about using the common containers you already have around your home. This lesson will also show you how to make openings in the walls of your hypertufa creations. Once you have those openings mastered you can go on to make lanterns and birdfeeders (THE LATER PROJECTS – HYPERTUFA 301). Believe me, your friends will be amazed at how skilled and artistic you are! You will smile, knowingly and sweetly, and say, “Thank you in response to all the compliments. (And only you and I will know how easy it really is.)

What is hypertufa? TimpyWorks explains:

There are a number of recipes for hypertufa. The basic one is sand or perlite combined with cement and peat moss. The finished products are lighter in weight than concrete and have an ancient look about them, as if they’d been sitting outside for the past couple of hundred years or so just waiting for you to find them and fill them with sedum or hen and chicks or rare alpines or even shade-loving plants, if that’s your choice for wherever you garden.

The first two lessons on how to make hypertufa are free, and they’re all you need to get you well on your way. There are other reports for sale on TimpyWorks for more advanced projects, but I haven’t read them so I can’t say whether or not they’re worth it. The price is very reasonable though and if the intro reports 101 and 201 are an indication, I’m sure they’re excellent as well.

There really is no limit to what you can create with hypertufa and I think the items made grow more interesting as they age. The moss that can grow on them create such an ancient and interesting look.

This is quite a nice garden art hobby to master, feel free to send me some photos if you’ve tried it!

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