THE ROCK GARDENS
 
Rock gardening, for us, is an attempt to replicate growing conditions found in the high mountains and in steep, stony places at lower elevations. In this we do not always succeed, but we are forever hopeful. We try to keep in mind the three principles of rock gardening; drainage, drainage and drainage.
The rock gardens at Cady’s Falls are in varying stages of youthful exuberance and middle age decadence. Many of the earliest plantings from the 1980’s have been crowded out by not-so-dwarf, dwarf conifers. In our most recent rock gardens, having hopefully learned the dwarf conifer lesson, we are limiting ourselves to alpines of compact habit, accompanied by a sparse selection of the most diminutive woody plants we can find.
 We have created many different eco-niches to try to satisfy a wide variety of plants from around the world. The soil conditions in our rock gardens vary from simple grit-enhanced native soil, to pure river stone enhanced with composted leaves. In some places, we have added limestone to satisfy the calciphiles and in others we have added peat to accommodate the acid lovers. We also have a  nicely maturing tufa garden where tiny plants thrive in holes drilled in the pure calcium carbonate rock.
Among the many eco-niches, we have sunny, but sheltered, north-facing slopes, south-facing hot spots and shady niches in close proximity.  We have wet, moss-covered rocks where the sticky leaved butterworts have seeded in. Indeed, some of the nicest moments in our garden have occurred serendipitously.
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Cady’s Falls Nursery
Don & Lela Avery
637 Duhamel Rd.  Morrisville, Vt. 05661
802-888-5559    avery@vtusa.net
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Baptisia leucophea
Salix vestita from Newfoundland in a gritty alkaline bed
Lewisia cotyledon
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Salix reticulata dwarf form from Newfoundland
Daphne cneorum ‘Eximia’
April and May
Gentiana verna angulosa
Iris  ‘Cherry Garden’
Aquilegia  saximontana
Pulsatilla vulgaris ‘Redbell’
Phylliopsis ‘Sugar Plum
Soldanella carpatica
Phyllodoce caerulea
Erigeron  aureus ‘Canary Bird’
Draba rigida bryoides impricata
Aubrieta gracilis in the foreground
Gentiana acaulis ‘Holtzmannii’
Lathyrus vernus ‘Alboroseus’
Polygala chamaebuxus grandiflora
Phlox ‘Crackerjack
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