9 Favorite Hypertufa Projects

Wow, did these succeed!

Sometimes when I'm making hypertufa I have what I think is a great idea, and it's a flop. Other times, I can't believe how well they turn out!

Here are the nine best successes with hypertufa in my short career as a hypertufarist.

Learning how to have patience while waiting for the pieces to cure properly is one thing; the staying power to wait and allow them to weather properly (which means, get moss on them) and for the plants to fill them and start to look happy is another.

Luckily, this exercise in patience is paying off.

Although some of these projects were made several years ago, it's only now that they are really showing their true colors; plants are established, and moss grows on the peat moss as the hypertufa wears away a bit.

The projects that get planted with tiny hardy succulents to suit the scale of the little mountain crag just keep getting better and better.

This is the ideal situation for Sempervivum, which love the 'tooth' of the rough surface, giving them something to grip to.

Hypertufa Fissures look like a mountain crag

Hypertufa Fissures resemble a mountain crag, complete with plants

The fissures and strata planters that I make are so pretty when filled with overflowing succulents.

Hypertufa Millstones

The different textures of the carved designs are so fun in combination.

Some of the millstones have round holes in the center, others square ones.

Laid flat on the ground, these can be planted too - or standing, they provide a peek-a-boo experience.

Larger sized pinch pot starting to grow moss

It takes a while for the moss to start to grow on this larger sized pinch pot - the first patches will be on the peat moss in the mix as it starts to decompose.

Pinch pots are actually made in a Ziploc bag.

Strata Planters are a bit like the fissures, just built sideways instead of vertically.

Strata planters with the tiny Sempervivum squishing out from between the layers.

Special wiggly twigs add such a great contrast to the rugged hypertufa in this twig handled basket

The driftwood twig is wired on to this basket formed creation. The wires are right inside the mix as it dried.

Hypertufa Toadstools - fun and interesting fungi

The stems of the toadstools are actually lengths of twig, which gives it a unique appearance (plus, I couldn't figure out how to make the stems from hypertufa).