Hypertufa Containers: Creating and Planting an Alpine Trough Garden
A complete guide to designing, making and planting hypertufa troughs. If you are a total novice, Lori will take you through every step with confidence.
North American Rock Garden Society
Hypertufa containers—also known as troughs—are rustic, striking, versatile, and perfect for small, Alpine plants. A mix of cement, perlite, peat, and water, they are simple and affordable to make at home. Hypertufa Containers details everything you need to know to make your own troughs and successfully garden in them. From plant portraits that include growing and cultivation information along with potting tips you’ll discover the amazing variety of plants that thrive in troughs. Hypertufa Containers features step-by-step instructions and color photography for making hypertufa containers in a variety of shapes and sizes.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256 pp.
- Book dimensions: 8 x 9 in. (230 x 205 mm.)
- Images: 208 color photos
- ISBN-10: 1604697067
- ISBN-13: 9781604697063
- Product code: 689706
Media reviews
"If you're into alpines and rock gardens, the perfect container for them is hypertufa."
—Garden Design
"Everything you need to know to make your own troughs.…Be careful ... you might catch the alpine bug!"
—Connecticut Gardener
"Swoon!"
—Columbus Dispatch
"A complete guide to every aspect of designing, making and planting fascinating, creative hypertufa troughs. If you are a total novice, Lori’s clear, detailed, engaging writing will take you through every step with confidence.…One of those special books that won’t just be sitting on the shelf. It is going to be out with me in the garden, no doubt getting spattered and stained with wet hypertufa."
—North American Rock Garden Society
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