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Creating and Planting Garden Troughs
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Manufacturer: B. B.Mackey Books
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 712
EAN: 9781893443006
ISBN: 1893443000
Label: B. B.Mackey Books
Manufacturer: B. B.Mackey Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: 1999-05-17
Publisher: B. B.Mackey Books
Studio: B. B.Mackey Books
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Good resource -
This book is a good resource for those who want information about making and planting rock garden containers. Not a lot of color photos, but still a worthwhile book to get.
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Very enjoyable reading! -
If you are 'into' making hypertufa troughs or even thinking of making your own pots or possibly just interested in reading about this subject this is the book to read first! there is a lot of information here!
The Hypertufa Bible -
This is a terrific book; well written, practical, effectively illustrated. It answered every question I had about the subject and more.
Too focused on plants instead of troughs - 
I was disappointed in this book for many reasons. I was looking for a resource on how to create different shapes, depths and sizes of hypertufa troughs. This book focused on fairly shallow, square troughs. Because most of the trough photographs were in black and white, it was difficult for a beginner to visualize how a finished product should look. Too much of the book was focused on the type of plants you can grow in troughs. I feel a trough is just a container with unique characteristics and was hoping for information on the kinds of problems trough gardners face and how to deal with those problems. I gave the book a 3 rating because chapter 2 - 'Constructing A Hypertufa Trough' was well done. Even with the lack of color photographs in this chapter, you will know how to create a small, square trough. If you are looking for creative trough ideas this is not the book.
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Great resource for this niche gardening style -
Stone agricultural troughs, either as a theme or an accent, can add a special look to a garden. Of course you don't have to use a real stone these days as cement can be used to create the troughs. But, whether stone or cement it still ends up extremely heavy. One way to get around this is to mix peat moss with the cement. This produces a much lighter weight, porous trough that looks like stone. That is the focus of this particular gardening book - how to make these "hypertufa" troughs, what plants do well in them, and some basic plan layouts for using them in a garden design. Pictures of the troughs created by these techniques show troughs and stones that appear very old with lichens and mosses growing on the sides. They remind me very much of pictures of ancient Mayan or Indonesian stone ruins. For anyone who wants to add this type of accent or wants to create a garden that has the appearance of ancient stone structures this is a book you will want to have.
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