You know when you stumble on something you’ve never heard of before and then you start seeing it everywhere? Well, meet “hypertufa” — your next new eye worm. Truth is hypertufa — a ...

(The trough at Sissinghurst, of course, really is an old farm sink.) Hypertufa containers make unusual pots for bonsai. And small herbs are set off nicely in such a pan.

Making the pots is simple; you’ll need rubber gloves, a dust mask, molds, and a can of spray oil, plus equal measures of peat moss, perlite (or vermiculite), and Portland cement.

Hypertufa, an imitation of tufa, will produce easy-to-make containers that look like weathered stone pots.

Twenty members and two guests of the Foothills Herb Society defied snowy weather on March 12 to study growing and using herbs. Nancy Baxter gave a program on how to make an artificial stone pot ...