I'm just finishing up my new path through my new flower bed. Need to make a few more to for the end. These are concrete steppers made from rhubarb leaves and I think it makes a cool garden path.

pogo...those are absolutely stunning...I want some! Your columbine is gorgeous as well!

Fine work!

Peace

Gail

Oh, rhubarb! I just composted a bunch of huge leaves when I harvested my plants last week. I coulda had a stepper stone pathway!

pogo,

They are beautiful, and most certainly do make a great garden path. I have the rhubarb, but have never mixed cement in my life, so there I sit, thinking that I'd love to try it. Thanks for the motivation, I do think I'll try these in the next couple weeks.

That looks amazing!! I'm jealous.

Daisy dew you definately should try making some of these. They're easy and fun. Get a bag of quik crete mortar mix, then it's just add water. Quik crete cement mixes have to big of rocks for this kind of work. Here's some good directions with pictures. Forget about the chicken wire part though, that's too hard to work with. I use drywall tape and criss-cross pieces of that in the cement mix.

Here's a post I made earlier with some how-to tips.

I used some cement color on these steppers, that's why they look brownish instead of grey. I wasn't very consistent with the color though, I wish I had that figured out before I did it but oh well.

Very nice pogo! How do you get the leaves to lay flat for steppers?

Very nice!!! I really like your inconsistent color, makes them look more natural, after all there are no two leaves the same.

"How do you get the leaves to lay flat for steppers?"

They lay flat real easy The weight of the cement smashes them down.

My next project is to make one curved into a bowl shape for a bird bath. You lay the leaf over a mound of sand the shape you want.

Thanks guys! And you're right top, they don't all have to be the same color.

I want my moss and creeping thyme to hurry and fill around the stones. Since I'm not good at patience I should go get some more plants.