Tropicals & Tender Perennials: making styrofoam rocks., 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
I thought I would share a bit on how I built the rocks. I have seen a lot of crazy ideas and some good a lot of them are aweful LOL. Get your foam and a propane torch. You do not have to be very artistic at making rocks for this to work just a decent idea of what you want the styrofoam does not really burn but melts back. After playing around with a piece for a bit you will get the hang of it once done you should coat it. I suggest cement if it is going to go outside or be in the enviorment. If in a terraium and you want to keep the delicate look of some of the smaller structures on the rock I would suggest acrylic spray paint. It turns fairly hard and usually has a good look of rock once dry. You do not have to get every angle of the rock with the cement or acrylic paint. The parts that are still white will turn green in a humid setting. What I like to do is mix fish emulshion and milk together and a few of my favorite mosses. Then I paint the waterfall with that mixture. Once out in the greenhouse after a few weeks it will have moss all over it and look like its a hundred years old. After that put in the plants and longfiber moss and your done. I will post more pics as I finish.