Pond garden
THE POND GARDENS
The water plantings at Cady’s Falls are made up of a string of long narrow ponds which were created out of the weedy ditch that used to drain the barnyard when this was an active dairy. The ponds rely on a thick layer of muck to retain the water which flows by gravity through a buried pipe from the farm spring. This year-round flow of water keeps the bottom of the ponds from freezing in the winter and allows us to grow hybrid waterlilies and the exotic skunk cabbages, even though the water is no more than twelve inches deep.
Cady’s Falls Nursery
Don & Lela Avery
637 Duhamel Rd. Morrisville, Vt. 05661
802-888-5559 avery@vtusa.net
Darmera peltatum & Iris ensata in July
Nymphaea ‘Firecrest’ July- Aug
Primula japonica
Peltandra virginica
Nymphaea ‘Chromatella’
Lysichitum camschatcense: Asian
skunk cabbage in bloom in April
Symplocarpus foetidus: our native skunk cabbage in full bloom in April
Parnassia asarifolia in October
Darmera (pink), Caltha & Primula May 1st
Helonias bullata mid May
Calths palustris ‘Multiplex’
Iris pseudacorus ‘Dwarf Zvetlik’
Lysichitum camschatcense: leaves fully expanded in June
Iris lavigata ‘Snow Drift’ mid June
After frost in October
Primula rosea ‘Gigas’
Darmera peltata
Iris pseudoacorus & Primula japonica in Spring
Menyanthes trifoliata
Late October
January
Darmera in October
