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Creating Hypertufa Containers: a 2-Day Workshop

Oct 21, 2025, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Deadline: 
Monday, October 20, 2025
Cost: 
$45 for Chadwick members/ $50 for non-members
Location: 
Chadwick Arboretum Barn, 2201 Fred Taylor Dr, Columbus, OH 43210
Contact: 
Chadwick Arboretum

HYPERTUFA CONTAINER WORKSHOP

In this 2-day workshop, Chadwick Arboretum Volunteer Allen Fabian will teach you how to create beautiful hypertufa containers.  A planted trough can be a garden unto itself, highlighting a variety of textures, colors and heights. Each class participant should be able to make two containers from materials supplied. All materials, gloves and handouts provided. Please come dressed in your garden clothes.

  • Session One takes place on Tuesday, October 21, from 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Participants will learn about the history of hypertufa, mix the ingredients, build a container, and learn how to release a finished container from its mold, with one-on-one instruction.
  • Session Two takes place on Wednesday, October 22, from 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Participants will remove pots from mold and add texture.

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:

Cost: $45 Chadwick members/$50 non-members. Includes both sessions, all materials, two containers, and a handout.

*if you are a member and did not receive a discount code, email williamson.596@osu.edu.

Location: This workshop will take place in the Chadwick Arboretum barn, which is located right behind the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.

This class is limited to 12 people, sign up soon! Payment for the class is due online at registration. Cash and checks will not be accepted. Refunds may be processed up to 24 hours before the workshop. Please email chadwick@osu.edu for help with refunds.

Register here!

If the survey is closed, email williamson.596@osu.edu to be added to the waitlist.