Heritage Gardens Flume Fountain
In an early post, I shared a shot of the Flume Fountain and the Heritage Gardens and MuseuminSandwich Ct and I promised I would do a post showing more of it, well finally I am getting around to doing that with this post.
Incase your wondering what a flume fountain is, its where the water runs along a structure to the point where it drops as a waterfall, now that made sense to me as I was typing it, but now I read it again it sounds confusing LOL
So I went to the website for the gardens and found this
The Flume was constructed in 2010 after a design competition was initiated by the Heritage Museums & Gardens Board of Trustees. A landscape architect, Stephen Stimson Associates of Cambridge, MA submitted the winning design that eventually became the Flume.
According to the landscape architect, “the design was inspired by the gristmills and historic flumes found throughout New England.” The flume is first viewed from the Visitor’s Center as a level narrow pool that extends to the East. The ground elevation drops away as the Flume extends 208’ until it pours 26’ down into a pool filled with waterlilies.
Guests travel the Promenade into the Garden and glimpse the Flume through the trees several times until finally arriving in the Daylily Garden. From the lawn the Flume is visible in the distance pouring into the pool below. The water garden is defined by native granite stone edges and invites visitors to explore the water plants and garden collection. The trees lining the Promenade are mostly 90 (plus) year old Hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis) planted in the 1920’s by Charles Owen Dexter.
The waterlily pool below contains several cultivars of waterlilies that were chosen to evoke a Cape Cod pond filled with waterlilies.
Some fun facts about the Flume:
The structure is 208’ long
It’s 24” wide
At the end the water drops 26’ into the waterlily pool below.
Is constructed of Corten Steel and is intended to visually tie into the native trees.
The flume recirculates approximately 300 gallons of water per minute.
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As you can see in the first and next shot, the pond the water drops into has Lillies which is beautiful, and they have little lego insects around the garden, you can see one a dragonfly in the next shot
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And moving back you can see the field it is in
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Also in this field is this sculpture, which I though was worth a shot and sharing
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And a last shot to finish off the post
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And that’s all folks
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