miniature Gardens
MINIATURE GARDENS
Cady’s Falls Nursery
Don & Lela Avery
637 Duhamel Rd. Morrisville, Vt. 05661
802-888-5559 [email protected]
Sempervivum in the same muffin tin, filling in over several years. Below, ready to be lifted and replanted
Sempervivum in frying pans
Hypertufa trough
with tufa rocks and Saxifraga ‘?????? in May
Alpines planted in tufa rock in a brake drum. With Androsace villosa in bloom below. The variegated violets are intruders.
Dwarf spruce in a cast iron brake drum
Fasciated semps in a broken cement block from Lake Huron
Orostachys iwarense in cement planters
Newly-planted, dump truck, brake drums in the foreground above and below
Encrusted Saxifraga with perforated dolomitic stones from the Bruce Peninsula, in a tractor wheel rim
Dry-loving plants in rusty wok
Of all the plantings at Cady’s Falls, it seems that we receive the most comments on the hens and chicks in frying pans, brake drums and muffin tins. While it is considered a crowning achievement among rock gardeners to amass a collection of fine hypertufa troughs, we find that many cheap objects from the scrap heap make durable miniature gardens of great beauty. Unlike true troughs, these smaller vessels are easily rearranged and easily stashed away for winter. Children seem to be especially fascinated by these whimsical plantings.
Campanula chamissonis in a tractor wheel rim
Hybrid pitcher plants in saturated peat and sand in an old steel tub
