Rock gardens
ROCK GARDENS (continued)
Cady’s Falls Nursery
Don & Lela Avery
637 Duhamel Rd. Morrisville, Vt. 05661
802-888-5559 avery@vtusa.net
The Tufa Garden
Tufa is a naturally occurring, precipitated rock comprised of nearly pure calcium carbonate. It is light weight, very porous and is easily colonized by the roots of lime-loving plants. In a traditional rock garden, the plants are grown between the rocks. In a tufa garden, the plants are grown in holes bored in the rock. Alpine plants established in tufa grow very slowly and are as thrifty and compact as they would be in a natural limestone outcropping. The feeling of the tufa garden is at once sparse and charming.
Yucca filamentosa ‘Bright Edge’
Opuntia polyacantha pink form
Opuntia polyacantha yellow form
Gentiana ‘King Fisher’
Gentiana paradoxa
Salix reticulata, dwraf form
from Newfoundland
Saxifraga oppisitifolia, a rare Vermont lime-lover
Sagifraga sp.
Opuntia phaeacantha var. major
Semprevivum ‘Sir Willaim Lawrence’
