Concrete Leaves

Instructions on how to make beautiful DIY concrete leaves.

Finally, foliage doesn't have to be fleeting.

Instructions on how to make beautiful DIY concrete leaves.

Collect your rhubarb leaves and make a bunch of stepping stones when you harvest. Impressive Rhubarb Leaves Concrete Pathway!

DIY Easy Concrete Stepping Stones - How to make simple stepping stones that are cast from leaves using a premixed concrete mix.

A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I learned how to make concrete leaf castings to put in our gardens. Our instructor was Roberta Palmer, who sells her leaves all over Portland and also holds little how-to workshops in her own backyard. Roberta has her castings tucked throughout her garden. Some of them are left natural concrete, and allowed to weather and collect moss. Others are beautifully painted in gradated colors. This leaf is approximately 15" across. Her yard is lush with big-leafed…

Instructions on how to make beautiful DIY concrete leaves.

Concrete leaves, cement leaves, garden projects

A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I learned how to make concrete leaf castings to put in our gardens. Our instructor was Roberta Palmer, who sells her leaves all over Portland and also holds little how-to workshops in her own backyard. Roberta has her castings tucked throughout her garden. Some of them are left natural concrete, and allowed to weather and collect moss. Others are beautifully painted in gradated colors. This leaf is approximately 15" across. Her yard is lush with big-leafed…

Customize your own birdbath using any large leaf, sand and concrete mix and some paint to really make it your own.