Just hit some awesome yard sales today. Found some cool containers and baskets to use for hypertufa molds, an antique table for my deck and also some great garden tools at an estate sale. For $3.00 I found a pair of heavy brass swans that have hollow bodies (for planting) they will look great in the garden when they get their natural patina coloring.

Trying to design a new shed with the hubby. I think we are going to build a board and batten shed, 12x16 with a 5' overhanging roof on one of the long sides, under which I will have a potting shed area 5x16 with a workbench and shelf over. I want to wall in the long exterior wall of potting shed area with lattice and 1/2 of the end walls as well to hide the bench and shelf, leaving a 3ft wide doorway at the entry end open and at the other end just the top 1/2 open so my work bench can wrap… Continue

I recently attended a gardeners show where I attended a seminar on making concrete fossil stones and hypertufa containers. hypertufa is a mix of quickcrete, sand, vermiculite and peat moss. It makes a concrete that looks worn and aged. Does anyone have any good ideas for interesting form materials? I did see the use of wicker baskets which looked kind of cool.