I’ve seen a “recipe” to make a bird bath out of cement and a large elephant ear. Need kind of cement,etc thanx
May 24, 2010 by
Filed under Bird Baths
pile sand in a heap, place elephant ear leaf “face” down, pour cement on top, set, flip, pull off leaf. Voila!–shallow bird bath that looks like an elephant ear leaf. can also us other large leaves, but the one I saw was grand.
Just did this last week in a state convention for master gardeners in Texas. You need a box, Portland cement and play sand plus the leaf you want and make sure it has nice veins. You pile the sand in a mound and mix 2:1 cement to sand and add water to make it a thick consistency that when you squeeze a hand full it stays together. Lay the leaf vein down and pile the cement mix on it and make a nice edge about half an inch. You can put a whole in the center if you want to make a fountain too. By the next day, everyone got to pick theirs up and take it home. You can add color to the cement which looks so much more natural than painting it too.