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 ...

Hypertufa containers are porous, rock-like planters that you can make at home. The basic ingredients include Portland cement, peat moss, and either vermiculite or perlite. Mix the dry ingredients ...

Physical characteristics have always helped to define Pyramid Lake. In fact, the native Paiutes, who were the earliest settlers on the lake, originally called it "Cu Yui Pah" or lake of the cui ui ...

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 ...

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, their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At Denver Botanic Gardens, Wildflower Treasures is neither as splashy as the water-lily pond nor as refined as the Japanese garden. The sun-soaked hardscape ...

A lot of gardeners grow plants in pots. Some start their own flowers from seed. A few even make their own potting mix using homemade compost. But not many make the pots the plants grow in. A group of ...

Naturalists Bob Bowles and Dieter Mueller spent Monday afternoon trudging through the forest at Historic Fort Willow looking for tufa rock in Mink Creek. For Mueller, 75, it was an opportunity to ...

Physical characteristics have long defined Pyramid Lake. The native Paiutes, who were the earliest settlers on the lake, originally called it “Cu Yui Pah” or lake of the cui ui fish, after the fish ...