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Summary: Materials such as premixed concrete, a hoe, and a wheel barrel are important for making garden spheres for your landscaping. Find out what materials to use for making concrete garden spheres in this free landscaping video.
Farouk Ramadan has a master’s degree in architecture and design from the College of Art & Design in Florence, Italy and has over 25 years of experience in architecture and product...read more
Landscaping is thousands of years old and spans time, culture, and society. Mankind has employed it when forming massive works such as the hanging gardens of Nineveh, Central Park in New York, and in much smaller works such as individual gardens in the suburbs. Garden art has continued to be an important aspect of landscaping, and concrete spheres have gained in popularity over the years. If you would like to learn how to make concrete garden spheres you can learn for free online. In this free video series, learn how to make concrete garden spheres from Farouk Ramadan, developer of the History Stones line of concrete molds. Farouk will demonstrate all the necessary steps for creating concrete garden spheres. He will show you how to mix the concrete for garden spheres, how to cast garden sphere molds, how to remove garden spheres from molds, how to put together concrete garden spheres, and how to color concrete garden spheres.
"Now we're going to be talking about the material you will need to make your concrete sphere. We are going to start with the concrete. What we have here is a bag of premixed concrete, it's an 80 pound bag but also they come in a 60 pound bag, you could buy it at your hardware store. In addition to the premixed concrete you will need a hoe, you can mix the concrete with the hoe, and it?s a nice and easy way to mix it all together. A wheel barrel or nice large tub will be fine. Water to add to your concrete, trowel, you can scoop the concrete and put it in the mold; lubricant, we have here cooking spray, it will do, and last your mold. What we have it's a 12 inch half sphere, this is a 10 inch, that's 12 inch and that's a 15 inch. We are going to cast all three together, one inside the other. The 10 inch is going to be a solid one; it's going to come like this. We will have two of them and we will mortar them together and we will end up with the complete sphere."
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