Displays at The Potting Shed utilize vintage items as planters and garden decorations in Orange, on Thursday, August 3, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register/SCNG) ...

The garden gnomes, Greek goddesses and grinning gargoyles are going, going, almost gone. That’s because the king of ornamental concrete in St. Paul is going out of business. For more than 20 ...

Quebec-based Les Mimipots makes its planters from concrete with the intention that they should last 100 years or more – far, far longer than most of the plants they contain.