View full size The Oregonian A hypertufa trough ready to plant. 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.

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 ...

Garden troughs are seen in all the best places. Designed to mimic antique stone containers, many troughs in Atlanta gardens are made from hypertufa: a mixture of Portland cement, peat moss and ...

Once you get past their odd name, the homemade faux-stone planters known as hypertufa containers have a place in any garden.

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 ...

Hypertufa troughs are ideal containers for alpine plants, succulents and cacti, but Jessup also fills his handsome containers with a mix of lobelia and miniature roses.

This winter, at a conference for greenhouse and landscape professionals, I learned about a popular trend in container gardening — the tufa trough. Actually, I had probably seen one before, but didn’t ...

“The charm of a planted trough coaxes the viewer to move closer, to pause in the pathway, to lean in,” according to the new book “Hypertufa Containers: Creating and Planting an Alpine Trough ...

Trough-Garden Basics Ms. Chips has helped keep the alpine-and-trough tradition going strong at the nursery, and in 2018, her passion yielded a book, “Hypertufa Containers: Creating and Planting ...

More recently, my unofficial passion for the minuscule has shifted outdoors, to what's known as trough gardening—the cultivation of Lilliputian landscapes in pseudo-stone containers called ...

I was among 19 women and one very secure man in a classroom at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, learning to make planting troughs from the concrete alloy known as hypertufa. I was there as ...

NORTH BEND — Southwestern Oregon Chapter of the American Rhododendron member Ron Prchal will be demonstrating a technique for turning Styrofoam containers into hypertufa trough planters ...