Rock gardens
ROCK GARDENS
Summer and Fall
Cady’s Falls Nursery
Don & Lela Avery
637 Duhamel Rd. Morrisville, Vt. 05661
802-888-5559 avery@vtusa.net
Opuntia polyacantha pink form mid - June
Gentiana ‘Kingfisher’ in October
Gentiana paradoxa in October
Opuntia phaeacantha var. major mid - June
Semprevivum ‘Sir William Lawrence’
Gentiana ‘Dali’ in October
Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’ in bloom July 2008
Pseudoplantagia rockii
Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’ in October
Saxifraga urbium ‘Variegata’
Dianthus ‘Sternkissen’
Sempervivum arachnoidium et al.
Cotoneaster cooperii
Late June
Sedum sieboldii in October
July
Opuntia & Lavendula in July
June
Rock Garden in July
Pulsatilla vulgaris seed heads in June
Berberis ‘Bagatelle’
Cyclamen hederifolium
Sempervivum ‘California Giant’
HEATHER
Heather garden with conifers late June
Late July
Calluna ‘Dark Beauty’ September
Heather in August
All the heathers are cultivars of one species, Calluna vulgaris, and they are hardy here only with reliable snow cover. This means that they need to be sited where the snow will last through the winter months. A few inches of snow makes all the difference. We prepare the heather beds with generous amounts of peat moss and we maintain a year-round mulch of white pine needles. We do not fertilize the heather beds. We shear the plants hard every spring before growth initiates. Heather are easily choked out and they can not compete with larger plants. They look great with conifers but, as years go by, conifers prevail. We have had heather persist in the garden for 20 years.
