Making a miniature stone wall

http://www.antinbath.com/2010/04/small-garden-design-ideas-create.html

A companion video to my How to create a Japanese garden in under 3 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdfspyfPjY

In this short video I'll show you how I laid out and built a rustic pumice stone wall. This wall was used to create a small garden of Dwarf Snake's Beard plants around a satellite dish on my porch roof.

The pumice stones are usually used in chimenae, a clay oven. If you live in a volcanic area you can find pumice washed up on the beach as it floats on water. I used pumice because it's lightweight, perfect to put on a roof.

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[abc114able]

I'd like to make a more boxy shaped one with kebob stakes sticking out of the mortar in different spots as a defensive wall for my miniature war gaming artillery position. Any suggestions on what sort of stones to use?

[antinbath]

@abc114able Any stones are fine. If it's for war games and you want it to be portable then pumice stone is the lightest.

[franl155]

thanks for that - I've been trying to find something like this for, oh, months! I'm having to build my garden on a table-top, because I'm disabled and can't reach down to the ground; I've been trying to find some kind of "natural" retaining wall for it, and this looks like it!

One thing: I read somewhere in my travels that using pumice isn't a good idea, ecologically; they say make hypertufa and use that: would this work in your project? Of course, I'd have to learn how to make that first!

[antinbath]

@franl155 Apart from the transportation impact I can't see how pumice would be bad ecologically. It's a natural and abundant product. Hypertufa is worse ecologically as the amount of energy to produce it, being an artificial aggregate, is much greater. The cement used to bind it is also worse. I'd recommend going natural!

[XxStrawberrySweet]

do you think that this will be suitable to make a model castle? im thinking that i can make the keep and outside of the castle with lava stone...

[antinbath]

@greatruaha Any rock's fine. 

[greatruaha]

@TheFragrantMuse That sounds like fun, would love to see how it turns out! I think the volanic rock was used because of the light-weight quality, can't see why normal rocks could not be used, just need a strong base to build on.

[MJFAN666]

i came

[scootermaster090]

what do you mix with the water?

[PumpkinMan66]

Very cool I must say. I should get some of my stuff on here.. you inspired me.