Phyllis Tilton on mon 26 nov 01
Last summer I visited a lovely garden/nursery in Rhode Island. In addition to having some very unusual plants, the owner also offered classes in making containers for some of the plants. These were in various drying stages. He said that it was cement, peat moss and I thought, glaze. I am not sure about the latter. He was quite busy and I could not stand there and keep asking questions. There were some molds used to shape. The finished products that he showed were stunning and planted with interesting combinations of succulents or other. There were also some of the pieces spaced about the gardens. I will be going back sometime in the next 6 mos--whenever my husband is stable enough for me to be away for a few days. My youngest son lives there. (I will miss NCECA this year. Just can't make long range plans.) Maybe someone know of this combination???
Thanks so very much!!
Phyllis Tilton
Daisypet1@yahoo.com
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Penny Hosler on mon 26 nov 01
Phyllis,
Those pots were probably made of hypertufa. If you do a general search
(not ClayArt) on the web for hypertufa you'll find a bunch of sites and
a bunch of recipes, using various combinations of peat moss, cement,
sand, perlite or vermiculite, concrete stain, etc.
They're fun to make. No glazing and no firing.
Penny in WA
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From: "Phyllis Tilton"
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Subject: Re: [CLAYART] Cement in Glazes--plus?
> Last summer I visited a lovely garden/nursery in Rhode Island. In
addition to having some very unusual plants, the owner also offered
classes in making containers for some of the plants. These were in
various drying stages. He said that it was cement, peat moss and I
thought, glaze. I am not sure about the latter. He was quite busy and I
could not stand there and keep asking questions. There were some molds
used to shape. The finished products that he showed were stunning and
planted with interesting combinations of succulents or other. There were
also some of the pieces spaced about the gardens. I will be going back
sometime in the next 6 mos--whenever my husband is stable enough for me
to be away for a few days. My youngest son lives there. (I will miss
NCECA this year. Just can't make long range plans.) Maybe someone know
of this combination???
>
> Thanks so very much!!
>
> Phyllis Tilton
>
> Daisypet1@yahoo.com
>
>
>
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Mert & Holly Kilpatrick on mon 26 nov 01
Phyllis,
Did they look very rough, like textured concrete? Rock gardeners make
hypertufa troughs. These are lightweight (well, lighter than 100% cement)
cement troughs, made of cement mixed with things like perlite or vermiculite
and peat and sometimes plastic reinforcing fibers, and different people
swear by different mixtures. I don't know about mixing in glaze though, I
haven't heard of that. Here are a couple related links, and there is a nice
book by Joyce Fingerut and Rex Murfitt called Creating and Planting Garden
Troughs.
http://www.thealpinegarden.com/newtroughgarden.htm
http://www.srpn.net/trough_plants.shtml
Holly
Phyllis Tilton wrote:
Last summer I visited a lovely garden/nursery in Rhode Island. In addition
to having some very unusual plants, the owner also offered classes in making
containers for some of the plants. These were in various drying stages. He
said that it was cement, peat moss and I thought, glaze. I am not sure about
the latter. He was quite busy and I could not stand there and keep asking
questions. There were some molds used to shape.
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