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popespots: Time spent on family homesteads in the deep South and riding with friends in the hunt country of Virginia instilled in me a love and interest in beautiful landscapes and gardens. Loving to create and design, I searched for something with the old world flavor and feel of the fabulous architectural structures so prominent in European gardens that I could recreate and bring to my own and friends’ landscapes. I found hypertufa to be perfect. Made out of organic materials, hypertufa planters immediately have that “aged feel”, which is only further enhanced by weathering and the growth of mosses or lichens. In a time when so much is manufactured, used once and disposed of, it is a pleasure to be able to offer something lasting for our gardens and landscapes.

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Where I'll be selling!!

Connecticut Cactus and Succulent Society 29th Annual Show and Sale -- Coco Key Water Resort Hotel & Conference Center, 358 East Main Street, Waterbury, CT; (Exit 26 off I 84) -- Saturday, April 9, 2012-- 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday, April 10, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. Northern District Annual Meeting -- Wednesday April 18, 2012 -- 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.-- Danversport Yacht Club, 161 Elliot Street, Danvers, MA; Annual Alpine Plant Sale, Stone Crop Botanic Gardens, Route 301, Cold Spring, NY. Come and enjoy the magnificent grounds and plants -- Saturday, April 28, 2012; 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. A visit is an experience in itself; 35th Annual Plant Sale, Berkshire Botanical Garden -- Routes, 102 and 183 Stockbridge, MA -- early buying: Friday, May 6, 2012 -- 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, May 7, 2012 -- 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sisters' Plant Sale, Saturday, May 19, 2012 -- 42 Bond Street, Reading, MA; Society Rowe, Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA -- Sunday, May 20, 2012 -- 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m; Annual Spring Plant Sale -- Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA -- Sunday,, June 2,2012 -- 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; The GardenClub Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. Annual Conference -- Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, MA -- Tuesday, June 5, 2012 -- 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Classes

If you would like to learn to make your own troughs, please contact me to teach for your garden club, or for private classes for you or a group of friends.

What on earth is hypertufa?

Hypertufa is a man made substitute for tufa. "Tufa" is limestone rock that has been eroded by water. In Europe watering troughs were often carved from tufa, which are huge, heavy vessels that are expensive and hard to come by.

So, hypertufa was created by using Portland cement, peat moss and perlite, making a trough for planting that is one quarter the weight of concrete, looks like aged limestone and gets covered by mosses in the garden. It makes great planters as it insulates plants from extremes of heat and cold.

Troughs can be made in almost any shape -- only limited by your imagination!!

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