Now available in paperback, here is the authoritative guide to creating and planting wonderful garden troughs.
Troughs, those elegant antique stone containers so treasured by rock and alpine gardeners, can now be made at home with hypertufa, a relatively lightweight concrete-based mixture, formed in simple molds.
Like original stone, hypertufa troughs are weatherproof, last for decades if not longer, combine well with other landscape materials, and make the perfect environment for evocative miniature gardens.
Each trough can have its own micro-environment with the perfect size, soil type, rocks, mulch, and siting for the deand dwarf evergreens are some of the plants that can be showcased in trough gardens.
Authors Joyce Fingerut, much in demand for her trough-building workshops, and Rex Murfitt, alpine gardening authority, present specialized information on making and planting successful troughs in a most readable yet thorough manner.
This book includes hundreds of photographs, clear drawings, a well-tested hypertufa method and recipe, trough-planting technique, a guide to plants, illustrated sample planting plans, and a checklist for hypertufa ingredients and supplies.
The updated bibliography, plant and subject indexes, and the resource list add to the value of this classic book.
Acclaimed in reviews.
Recipient of the American Horticultural Society Book Award.
Reviews Creating and Planting Garden Troughs, by Joyce Fingerut & Rex Murfitt Named a Book of the Year 2000 by the American Horticultural Society.
AMERICAN GARDENING (Magazine of the American Horticultural Society): Selected as one of five Books of the Year 2000.
'This is a much needed practical guide to the construction, planting, and maintenance of hypertufa troughs, ' says Marco Polo Stufano.
Written in a down-to-earth style, the book also details the history of gardening in troughs and describes a wide variety of plants that can be combined creatively in them.
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