Making hypertufa plant containers

THE POST-SIGNAL / Saja Hoffpauir

The Crowley Garden Club held its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Faye Hoffpauer’s camp in Crowley. Virginia Duson provided floral design tips, and Marlene Brantley presented a hands-on program on how to make hypertufa containers with Portland cement and natural matter. Hypertufa is a manufactured substitute for natural tufa, a slowly precipitated limestone rock. Making hypertufa containers are, from left, Brantley, Janis Coignard and Sissy Gall, with Robert Baxter and Virginia Duson in the background.