Robber barons of the 19th and 20th centuries impressed their peers with stately homes, elaborate greenery -- and ornamental statuary carved from tufa, a calcium carbonate rock. Even if you don't have ...

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 ...

• How to make Hypertufa troughs: http://www.botanicgardens.org/blog/how-make-simple-hypertufa-trough. • Plant Select Design Gallery: plantselect.org/design/design ...

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 ...

Twenty members and two guests of the Foothills Herb Society defied snowy weather on March 12 to study growing and using herbs. Nancy Baxter gave a program on how to make an artificial stone pot ...

LITTLE ROCK — What's hypertufa? Hypertufa is a fabricated version of limestone-based tufa rock that was abundant in England and Ireland several hundred years ago. Its easy-to-carve nature made it ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Kandy Jones lives by the old motto “one man’s trash is another’s treasure.” So much so, she has turned it into a bona fide business. Jones’ self-dubbed title, “The Garage Sale Queen,” ...