Heritage Gardens Flume Fountain
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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.Nicely captured snaps
Thanks it is such a beautiful spot :)
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Believe it or not its actually a Lego Dragonfly :) and I did get down low but not onto my stomach LOL to hard to get back up these days
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tokens.Having seen many gardens with water features this one is a first! Never heard of a flume fountain, good sign one is always learning something new.
Like the sundial the old reliable ones made that never age in my eyes.
Lily gardens and water with dragon flies how lovely to enjoy this unique garden, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks I have seen a few of these flume fountains but this is the tallest I have seen The gardens there are so beautiful we will visit them again
There actually are a lot of Grist Mills around New England. I grew up on Grist Mill Road! :)
That is a wonderful setting to put that flume, usually, they are not so easily viewed as this. Your pictures are wonderful and I had to look twice at that dragonfly. Do you say it is legos?? Ha! I never would have guessed.
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Yes Indeed I have seen that we did see one when we were heading to the Cape, but couldn't find a spot to park and go check it out, its on our list of places to revisit, of course I am talking about a Grist Mill LOL
I have seen a few Flume Fountains, but this is one of the biggest I have seen and in such a beautiful setting
Thanks for such kind words and support ;)
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That is COOL. I noticed the flume in the previous post, I'm really glad you showed it and explained it in great detail. What a cool concept and a great rendition of the idea. A serious WOW area for me.
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We did love these gardens and i have always loved flume fountains they are so cool, I love seeing them
If I hadn't asked Google I wouldn't have known what the German name for flume is, but now I know it and I know that I have seen a similar thing lately during a hike. I didn't take a photo from the other end though:
This Lego dragonfly looks cool 😁
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Thats a cool one you found, i love the wear on it gives such a charm to it
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It's old and broken - the flume lead to a watermill of which you can't see much anymore. I couldn't take better photos because of slippery rocks and an overgrown slope down to the ruins and the water.
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Maybe someday some one will restore the waterfall there, but best you didn't take risks on the slippery rocks
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This place is at the start of a hike through a gorge and forest of which I have posted before. Maybe they will renovate it one day for the visitors, but I don't think so.
Anyway, I just remembered the photo when I saw your images ;)
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Thanks for sharingit, I guess I am always hopeful and wish that things will be restored to their original beauty
It would be great, but I don't think it's possible because there's not much left of the mill building, but maybe I'll be surprised one day 😊
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That's right and of course I will make a post if the watermill will be renovated 😉
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Nice shots. It reminds me of a river wheel from like an old mill or something like that. This looks like a really cool place to take a walk.
Thanks for the visit, and yes Flumes are often used to power the wheels in old mills, I know there are some of these in New England and i must explore and find some ;)
It really was a lovely place to visit we plan to go back there again sometime
Beautiful photos. Loved the different variation colors of green.
That look-alike-waterfall is a nice backdrop in the surrounding nature. Pretty.
Thanks the gardens were so beautiful and we loved our visit and we plan to go back there again
Yes, I can see the place is also good for picnic. The environment looks very soothing and calm.
I thought the same when I was there, I wonder if they allow picnics, probably not at the moment with COVID
Yeah, can't wait for this covid thingi to go away.
Ohh yes me to but who knows how long that will be
Well,from what I'm hearing in the news they're working on the vaccine right now and hopefully before the end of the year or soon after. 🤞
Yes I read the same we can but hope
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exactly have a great day and wekend
Thank you. You as well.
In the first photo,it looks like water is coming out of the trees! Haha
Very pretty place!
I looked again and just noticed that , I hadn't before as I guess my mind was on the flume
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That's so interesting. I thought it was an old piece of equipment. Very clever!
Flumes were often used to power the wheels in old Mills, I know there are a few mills around here and I plan to try and go find some soon
That is a cool little waterfall.
It was a beauty to see for sure :)
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.How awesome is that it would look good in my garden but maybe a smaller version 😅
Ohh yeah it would be so cool, maybe you should design and build one ;)
Yep we can always build a scaled down model it would be very cool in a garden 👍
At one stage I had considered putting a Koi pond into the garden, but that was more expensive than we could afford at the moment, but now I am thinking if I ever get one have a scaled down Flume fountaininto it would be so cool
Great idea and them Koi fish can be quite expensive to buy but i am sure you will find a way to do it in a affordable way.
Yes I am pondering what I could do :)