Giant Hypertufa Snail! Recipes and Tips for Hypertufa Planters, Troughs and Sculpture

Create your own hypertufa (lightweight stone) pots, troughs and sculptures using these simple recipes and instructions. Enhance your garden, patio or front entrance. Don’t just think of it as an outdoor design material. Use it on the inside to create decorative bowls (not food safe), sculpture and even table tops! I’ll be making more hypertufa creations and sharing them with you soon! Use perlite for pots and vermiculite for sculpture. Perlite is commonly used to improve air flow and drainage in potting and gardening soils. It’s a porous, volcanic, round, white rock. It does not absorb water. Vermiculite resembles mica in appearance. It is crushed and heated aluminium-iron-magnesium silica. The typical vermiculite you acquire from a garden center will have a particle size smaller than perlite and the flake-like nature of vermiculite will make your hypertufa mix, block or scupture shape easier to carve and shape than perlite. Vermiculite acts like a