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Hi and thank you. Keep the trunk well watered. Now is the time that new fronds start emerging so i'm sure you'll be blessed with a new flush very soon

Hi Coy, no it wasn't painted, just left to weather naturally which it does like real rock eg moss etc

Thanks Barbara

Thanks Rose. I've never tried the yoghurt method but my faux rock projects have aged naturally, plenty of moss etc . I wish i could put a pic up for you to see

Hi Calina. Can't see a problem with what you want to do as long as you can still access them. I've done it with manhole covers. Good luck.

Hi SDQ , its just a normal 3 parts sand to 1 part cement with some liquid waterproofer and liquid colouring added at the time of the mix

Have fun Susan

Hi. Its in a raised bed thats filled mostly with granite chippings, so the its very free draining

Hi Lisa , It sets like any mortar mix so generally the next day its ok to handle

But you need holes at the bottom of the pots for water to escape. Too wet of the soil would cause the plant roots to rot. Cement/sand products are almost waterproof. Too make them completely water proof, you just need to paint them with cement paint (A liquid mixture of cement and water). I wouldn't make a pot out of cement/sand because it would be too heavy. If you make the walls too thin, and without wire frames, they break easily.

It is hollow inside so, probably 20-30 pounds.

Its not heavy at all tbh Mika, probably 10lbs

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Hi Jason. I had to move it last year but it didn't seem to effect it. They certainly put out some big fat roots very quickly. Hoping for some good growth this season , as its had to time to settle now

+Diane Lewis add some waterproofer to the mix to keep rain / moisture soaking in. When its cold / freezing, theres much less chance of expansion and the render cracking

+master strokes Pond is about 1.5m long and maybe 800mm wide. As a builder, i often have old bags of cement left over and i simply use those, so a bit difficult to quantify how much i've used. I would say that a wheel barrow of mortar goes a long way.

+SashaWasHereToday Its surprisingly quite light, probs about a quarter of a same size genuine rock

Estela Vargas 3 measures of sand to one measure of cement for example, 3 shovels of sand to one shovel of cement

It looks small, but if it was a real boulder, it would weight somewhere near to a hundred pounds. I could not pick up boulders that are one and half of that size from the ground. I can only pick them up if they were on a truck. Trust me, they would break anyone's back.

150 lbs boulder would be a little bigger than that.

danessaartist no, i didnt think there was any need as it just sits on the soil and is hidden anyway

Janice Woods God aye........lol. Its like being back at playschool , messing about with soft clay and so what if it gets messed up, go over it and try again. Let your mind go blank and enjoy.p.s its not concrete, its ordinary 3:1 sand / cement mix ...........

p.s (again) this effort spawned my first fake rock project which may be of use to you as well............ ruclips.net/video/AX2LckCk_Dk/видео.html About to start a slighlty bigger pond / fake rock project shortly myself, got another load of rubble to use up so may as well put it to use and recycle it

Thank you, I am going to give it a try.

basic 3:1 mortar mix

Got a few friends who've done just that and it seems to be ok. Never tried hypertufa myself though

Richard Zito Hi Richard. Tbh it was a quick vid for some of my mates to see who then suggested i put it on You Tube as well, even though it was never meant for that and hence the very amateur camera work.

Hi thanks .. well get better at it then - you're worth watching with your good ideas and all. there are so many other vid's that'r just silly

Richard Zito Very kind of you to comment , Richard. Thanks.

Hi Adam, i added some some yellow liquid mortar colouring at the mixing stage

Ordinary portland cement. In fact , its usually the odd half a bag left over from other jobs and no longer any good for bricklaying, that would otherwise be skipped

Ta muchly..............

I've stood on both the polystyrene backed one's and the old concrete rendered one's without any problem. Wouldn't recommend doing it too often though

I just follow the manufacturers recommendations on the bottle / packet for each product. Being in construction ,we buy our waterproofer in larger quantities, so i just use that. Usually its no more than a capfull per bucket.

Check out Stonemakers.

Nice one.............saved myself a fortune on skips as well, as all the old concrete and bricks etc would have had to have gone to skips / local dump

Hi. No , i deliberately didn't seal between the rigid pond liner and the fake rock for two reasons. Firstly to allow any excess water from rainfall etc to drain away and secondly to allow free movement should the liner sink a little due to weight or ground movement

Thanks for the comment Mike and for taking the time to watch.

I will do my best and a big thanks for taking an interest.

Hi John, thanks once again for your kind comment

Thank you Tom. Wouldn't it be a godsend if the winters were that mild every year...........

I was very fortunate last year as all my cycads flushed i.e 4 revoluta's, 1 circinalis and a rhumpii. Also got some good growth on a big Macrozamia moorei. With the mild winter we've had here so far, i can already see some of the cataphylls starting to move

Sounds promising, hopefully a warm summer this year to spark some growth. Say, you don't happen to be a member of hardy tropicals do you?

Could be .............lol

Agree, they do look very different when stripped. The feather palms are indeed butia, in fact they were odorata. Sadly both are no more and i put it down to the claggy brazilian soil that they rootball was encased in. Certainly wasn't down to cold imo. In hindsight, i wish i'd hosed it all off , i think they'd still be alive today. Keep telling myself to try again as they are stunning palms. Very mild here as well, pity about all the rain and wind but i guess we can't have it all our own way.

My Butia was Eriospatha, apparently hardiest of the Butias but they definitely don't like prolonged cold. They are beautiful palms but apparently the hardiest feather leaved palm is Jubaea chilensis which I might try this year. You have a truly stunning garden, I am very very jealous. Keep up the good work and I want an update on your garden this year lol.

lawn38 I planted a Jubaea last year, so hoping to see some growth this year. They are a slower grower though apparently

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