Acorn Hall: 68 Morris Avenue,
Morristown,
NJ 07960 (973)267-3465.
- This 1853 Italianate mansion, home of the Morris County
Historical Society, features gardens restored by the Home Garden Club of
Morristown to reflect the period, including more than 30 varieties of Victorian
roses, a traditional knot garden and a fern garden.
Avis
Campbell Gardens: 60 S. Fullerton Avenue (Behind the United Way Building),
Montclair, NJ (973)746-9614.
- These gardens are maintained by volunteers from the
Garden Club of Montclair and include a Rose Garden, an Herb Garden, and a formal
English-style walled garden with central fountain.
Bamboo Brook
Outdoor Education Center: 170 Longview Road,
Chester, NJ 07930
(201)326-7600.
- Now undergoing extensive renovation, the formal gardens at Bamboo
Brook were developed over a thirty-year period by Martha Brookes Hutcheson, one
of the first women to be trained as a landscape architect in the U.S. The 100
acre site also offers include fields, woodlands, water features and a White
Cedar allee.
Branch Brook Park:
Lake Street off Bloomfield Avenue, N
ewark, NJ 07109 (973)268-3500.
- Branch Brook
Park was the first county park to be opened for public use in the United States.
It features an extraordinary 2,700 cherry trees, the first donated by the Mayor
of Tokyo.
Brookdale Park Rose Garden: Grove St. between Summit and Wildwood Ave.,
Upper Montclair, NJ (973) 268-3500.
- This public park offers 43 acres of
beautifully designed landscape by the Olmsted Brothers plus a more recent rose
garden with 750 bushes of over 100 species donated by the North Jersey Rose
Society.
Cedar Brook Park & Shakespeare Garden: Park Avenue past Randolph Road,
Plainfield, NJ 07060 (908) 527-4900.
- A Shakespeare Garden of Cedar Brook Park in
Plainfield is maintained by the Plainfield Garden Club.
Colonial Park Arboretum and
Gardens (Follow link to “Gardens”): Colonial Park, 156 Mettlers Road,
Franklin Township,
East Millstone, 08873, (732)873-2495.
- This 144 acre arboretum
specializes in trees and shrubs that thrive in Central New Jersey including
dwart confiers, flowering shrubs and over 200 lilacs. The Rudolf W. van der Goot
Rose Garden offers a formal display of more than 3,000 roses of 285 varieties.
The Mettler Garden showcases a central fountain surrounded by miniature roses
and hybrid tea roses. Grandmother's Garden exhibits antique roses, The circular
Fragrance and Sensory Garden features raised beds for accessibility. The
Perennial Garden features a gazebo surrounded by flowering bulbs, perennials,
annuals, and flowering trees and shrubs.
Cross Estate Gardens: Old
Jockey Hollow Road,
Bernardsville, NJ 07924.
- The early twentieth-century
landscape of the Cross Estate, characteristic of the Arts and Crafts period,
includes a formal perennial garden, a wisteria-covered pergola, a mountain
laurel allee, and a garden of native plants. This garden is a project of the
New Jersey Historical Garden Foundation.
Davis Johnson
Park and Jack D. Lissemore Rose Garden: 137 Engle Street,
Tenafly, NJ 07670
(201)569-7275.
- A former estate, the 7 acre park displays an award-winning rose
garden recognized by the American Rose Society as well as topiary, an herb
garden, a sunken garden, a greenhouse and a collection of dwarf conifers.
Deep
Cut Gardens: 352 Red Hill Road,
Middletown, NJ 07748 (732)671-6050.
- The
Monmouth County Park features 52 acres of gardens and greenhouses as a living
catalog of cultivated and native plant materials.
Delbarton: 230 Mendham Road,
Morristown, NJ (973)538-3231.
- A private boys school occupies this former
banker's estate with an Italian garden with pergola and statuary.
The school web site.
Dey Mansion: 199 Totowa Road,
Wayne, NJ 07470 (973)696-1776.
- The grounds of
this Georgian mansion feature a blacksmith shop, herb and vegetable gardens, a
formal garden, a plantation house and a picnic area.
Duke Farms: 80 Route 206 South,
Hi
llsborough, NJ, 08844 (908)722-3700.
- The Gardens were founded in 1960 when Doris Duke
donated eleven acres of her estate, with existing greenhouses, to the
Foundation. The property is now being converted to an environmental
education center.
Durand-Hedden House and Garden: 523 Ridgewood Road,
Grasmere Park,
Maplewood, NJ 07040 (973)763-7712.
- This 18th century farmhouse currently
undergoing restoration showcases an award-winning herb garden (maintained by the
Maplewood Garden Club) which
includes one of the largest herb collections in the northeast.
EARTH Center Circle of Thyme Herb Garden: Davidsons Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue,
South Brunswick, NJ 08902 (732)398-5260
-
Maintained by the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Middlesex County, this 13 bed hardscaped Herb Garden
incorporates a new creative
theme for every bed each year. You will find culinary, medicinal and aesthetic herbs in each meticulously cared for bed.
The Herb Garden is surrounded by an enormous vegetable display garden.
Additional features include a Butterfly House and a
Rain Garden.
Edith Duff Gwinn Gardens:
Barnegat Light Historical Society Museum, 5th Street and Central Avenue,
B
arnegat Light, NJ 08006 (609)494-8578.
- These lovely island gardens surrounding
the Barnegat Light Museum are maintained by the Garden Club of Long Beach
Island.
Florence and Robert Zuck Arboretum: Drew University, 36 Madison Avenue,
Madison, NJ 07940 (201)408-3000 ext. 3358.
- Drew's 186-acre campus and forest preserve
includes the Zuck Arboretum, situated on the southwest part of campus.
This wooded area includes two glacial ponds, a mix of native and
introduced trees, and a variety of flowering plants and shrubs.
Frank C. Helyar
Woods: Rutgers Gardens, The State University of New Jersey,
New Brunswick,
98103 (732)932-8451.
- These virgin woods offer an old growth forest with
marked trails, a swamp forest, and
a Christmas tree demonstration project.
Freeman Gardens: 644 Hawthorne Avenue,
Glen Ridge, NJ 07028
-
This "vest pocket" garden, less than 2 acres in size, is packed with delights, including approximately 300 rose bushes, a lattice garden surrounded by azaleas
leading to a Dolphins fish fountain, a 20 foot raised iris bed, a grape arbor, raspberries , blueberries and a mulberry tree for wildlife and children to enjoy.
There are several varieties of trees decades old towering over the property. A koi pond and woodland walk are in progress.
The garden, once part of an estate designed by Ethelbert Furlong, is open early morning until dark most of the year
except for the extreme winter months.
Frelinghuysen
Arboretum: 353 E. Hanover Avenue, (Whippany)
Morristown, NJ 07962 (973)326-7600.
- This
127 acre arboretum, headquarters of the Morris County Park Commission, offers
woodlands, meadows, beautiful gardens and distinctive collections of trees and
shrubs surrounding a Colonial Revival Mansion, including a Braille nature trail,
a rose garden and a lilac collection. The
Friends of the Arboretum
website.
Garden for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped: 1081 Green Street, Iselin Library,
Iselin, NJ 08830
(732)283-1200.
- This Sensory Garden with Braille signs is partitioned into
summer, primrose, rose, spring, rock, perennials and annuals sections. A circle
of senses showcases plants at waist level.
Glenmont: Edison National Historic Site, Main Street and Lakeside Avenue,
West Orange, NJ 07052 (973)324-9973.
- This 15 acre estate, located in the first
planned private residential community, showcases grounds with gardens and
greenhouses.
Greenwood Gardens:
274 Old Short Hills Road,
Short Hills, NJ (973)376-3587.
- This public garden
offers 28 acres of beauty and serenity, including formal gardens, open meadows,
woodlands, and pasture, surrounded on all sides by protected parks and
wilderness. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Grounds for Sculpture: 18
Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, NJ 08619 (609)586-0616.
- The arboretum-like grounds
of this 22-acre sculpture park and museum offer 2,000 trees representing more
than 100 species and cultivars including plantings of unusual conifers,
blossoming crabapples and dogwoods, weeping beeches, berms covered with
thousands of pink, red, and white rosebushes as well as various ecosystems such
as woodlands, marshes, and ponds.
(Cora) Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary: 324 Forest Drive S,
Short
Hills, NJ 07078 (973)376-3587.
- This 17 acre arboretum displays over eighty
native wildflowers and common flowers which can be seen from an extensive system
of trails.
Herrontown Woods Arboretum: Snowden Lane near junction with Herrontown
Road,
Princeton, NJ 08540.
- This arboretum displays a pine forest, shrubs and
over 30 species of trees.
Historic
Morven: 55 Stockton Street,
Princeton, NJ 08540 (609)924-8144.
- The mansion,
the former home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is surrounded by
lawns and trees and a colonial revival garden. A
Garden Conservancy
Garden.
Hunterdon County Arboretum:1020 Highway 31,
Lebanon, NJ 08833 (908)782-1158.
- Formerly a commercial
nursery, this 73-acre arboretum includes an All-America Selections Display
Garden, the Edmund Laport Greenhouse (house and garden plants), gazebos, a pond,
and groves of single tree species.
Israel
Crane House: 108 Orange Road,
Montclair, NJ (973)744-1796.
- This restored
1796 Federal style home features a craft school, a barn, and a kitchen/herb
garden. Threatened with demolition in 1965, the house was rescued by the
Montclair Historical Society and moved to its present location.
James A. McFaul
Environmental Center: Crescent Ave.,
Wyckoff, NJ 07481 (201)891-5571.
- This
81 acre environmental center showcases woodland gardens (including a dwarf
conifer garden) and habitats of a wide range of animals. In the spring, 25,000
daffodils and rhododendron and azaleas create a lovely scene.
James Rose Center for Landscape
Architectural Research and Design: 506 East Ridgewood Avenue,
Ridgewood, NJ
07450, (201) 446-6017.
- This is the former home and garden of James Rose, one of
the founders of the modernist movement in American landscape design, showcasing
his ideas about sculpting interlocking indoor and outdoor spaces.
Jay Pratt
Azalea Gardens: Country House Road,
Sharptown, NJ.
- This private garden, open
for viewing in May, features 400 azalea varieties.
Laurelwood Arboretum: 725 Pines Lake Drive West,
Wayne NJ 07470 (973)202-9579
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Once a rhododendron and azalea nursery, this 30 acres township park features woodland trails and gardens, wildlife, two ponds,
streams and hundreds of varieties of rhododendrons, azaleas and other unusual species of plants and trees.
Leamings Run Gardens: 1845
Route 9 North,
Cape May Court House, NJ 08210 (609)465-5871.
- The gardens of this
30 acre site are devoted entirely to annuals, making it the largest annual
garden in the United States. 25 theme gardens are scattered along a mile long
path that alternates woodland and flowers. Features include bridges and ponds
and other scenic elements. In August, hundreds of Hummingbirds flock to the
garden.
Leonard J. Buck Garden
(Click on picture of garden at top): 11 Layton Road,
Far Hills, NJ 07931
(908)234-2677.
- This 33 acre rocky stream valley offers a series of alpine and
woodland gardens with extensive collections of azaleas and rhododendrons,
wildflowers, ferns, exotic alpines and rockery plants.
Lewis W. Barton Arboretum
and Nature Preserve: Medford Leas Retirement Community, One Medford Leas Way
off Route 70,
Medford, NJ 08055 (609)654-3000.
- The landscaped grounds of this
retirement home showcase 36 unique courtyard gardens, private patio gardens,
wildflower meadows, a Pinetum (with native and exotic plants), a collection of
rhododendrons, an experimental planting of chestnut trees, and 55 acres of
natural woodlands.
Linwood Arboretum: 1410 Wabash Avenue,
Linwood, NJ
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Site of a former electrical substation, this tiny arboretum has transformed this acre from utilitarian
to uplifting. The Arboretum emphasizes uncommon plants and collections, including redbuds, hollies, witch hazels and magnolias.
Representatives of the "living fossils," plants of great geological age, were included, such as the maidenhair tree
and the dawn redwood. Collections include both North American and East Asian plants.
(Sister) Mary Grace Burns Arboretum: Georgian Court University, 900
Lakewood Avenue,
Lakewood, NJ 08701 (732)987-2373.
- The extraordinary former
estate of the son of a railroad tycoon who dealt with the sandy character of the
soil by bringing in 5000 carloads of loam. The results were well worth the
effort. The four gardens are the Italian Garden (with a Fountain of Apollo,
statuary, columns and urns), the Sunken Garden (with lagoon, marble fountain and
staircases, statuary and a bridge), the Formal Garden (an elliptical flower
garden with boxwood hedges), and the Japanese Garden (with teahouse). Founders'
Grove exhibits trees donated to celebrate the establishment of the arboretum).
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum and
Gardens: 45 Macculloch Avenue,
Morristown, NJ 07960 (973)538-2404.
- An 1810
brick Federal style mansion was acquired in 1949 by a Mayor of Morristown who
restored the house and gardens and opened them to the public. A two acre garden
is planted for seasonal bloom and displays 45 species of old-fashioned roses.
The wisteria covering the back-porch was brought from Japan by Commodore Perry.
New Jersey State Botanical Garden
(Skylands): 1304 Sloatsburg Road, Ringwood State Park, Morris Road,
Ringwood, NJ
07456 (973)962-7527.
- The central 96 acres surrounding the Tudor-style manor
house at Skylands is the State's official botanical garden. Nine formal gardens,
featuring statuary and maintained according to their original design, include
the Azalea Garden, the Lilac Garden, the Crab Apple Vista, the Magnolia Walk,
the Annual Garden, the Perennial Border, the Peony Garden, the Rock Garden, and
the Winter Garden. The Garden also offers woodland paths.
Oakeside Mansion at the Bloomfield Cultural Center: 240 Belleville Ave.,
Bloomfield, NJ 07003 (973)429-0960.
- This 3 acre garden, including a formal rose
garden, water and terrace gardens, and a solarium, is being restored with help
from the New Jersey Historic Trust.
Osborn
Cannonball House Museum: 1840 Front Street,
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
(908)232-1199 (weekends) or (908)322-6700x314 (weekdays).
- The grounds of this
18th century house include brick walls, an authentic colonial herb garden, an
arbor and formal gardens enclosed by a white fence.
Presby Memorial Iris Garden: 474
Upper Mountain Avenue, Mountainside Park,
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
(973)783-5974.
- This important collection displays only 6 species (all iris, of
course) but over 4,000 varieties of irises, some dating back to the 1500's, in
beds historically arranged and along a stream.
Prospect Garden:
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544 (609)258-3455.
- The 1849
Italianate-style mansion, once home to the Princeton University presidents, is
surrounded by landscaped grounds including tulip trees over 100 feet high, a
redwood tree, and many more native and exotic trees and shrubs surrounded by a
wrought-iron fence. A flower garden at the rear of the house in the shape of the
university seal was laid out by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Quietude Garden Gallery:
24 Fern Road,
East Brunswick, NJ 08816 (732)257-4340.
- This 4 acre sculpture park
exhibits over 150 works of outdoor sculpture.
Reeves-Reed Arboretum: 165
Hobart Avenue,
Summit, NJ 07901 (908)273-8787.
- The 13 acre estate's grounds,
featuring 19th and 20th century garden design, include a daffodil collection,
arose garden with connecting rock-pool garden, a patterned herb garden, and a
woodland trail.
Rutgers
Gardens: 112 Ryders Lane, The State University of New Jersey,
New
Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732)932-8451.
- This fascinating 180 acre research and display
garden showcases 1,200 kinds of plants. Special collections include hollies (the
largest collection of American Hollies in the world), yews, rhododendrons and
other ericaceous plants. Gardens include the Donald B. Lacey Display Garden (unusual and colorful annuals, tropicals, herbs and vegetables),
The Roy H. De Boer Evergreen Garden, The Ella Quimby Water Conservation Terrace Gardens (drought tolerant plants), American Hollies, the
Shrub Collection (the original collection at the gardens), the Shade Tree Collection, the Rhododendron and Azalea Garden,
The Ornamental Tree Collection, the Bamboo Forest (with a winding path and a bridge over a small stream) and the Tribute Gardens (a series
of outdoor rooms arranged and connected as rooms would be in a home).
Sayen House and Gardens: 155 Hughes
Drive,
Hamilton, NJ 08690 (609)587-7356.
- The garden showcases hundreds of
rhododendron and azaleas and other rare collections as well as offering nature
trails, ponds, and abundant wildlife.
Schuyler Hamilton House: 5 Olyphant Place,
Morristown, NJ 07960
(973)267-4039.
- The former home of Revolutionary War doctor who, with his son,
organized the first horticultural society of New Jersey.
Shakespeare Garden:
Cedar Brook Park, Pemberton Ave. and Randolph Rd.,
Plainfied, NJ 07060.
- This Olmsted Brothers designed Shakespeare Garden,
installed in 1927 by the Plainfield Garden Club and the Union County
Parks Commission, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
as well as on the New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail. Showcasing flowers
and plants mentioned within the works of Shakespeare, it features a
natural boulder retaining wall, pergola, benches and Medieval plant
selections.
Shakespeare Garden:
College Of St. Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road,
Morristown, NJ 07960 (973)292-6300.
- A
1920s garden with a bust of Shakespeare originally displaying only plants
mentioned in Shakespeare's works is situated next to the Botany Greenhouse.
(David C.) Shaw Arboretum: Holmdel Park, 44 Longstreet Road,
Holmdel, NJ 07733
(732)946-9562.
- Located in a 343 acre County Park, this arboretum features
hundreds of cultivars, the Jane Kluis Memorial Dwarf Conifer Garden (specimens
of green, blue, gold, and pink), the Alvarez Synoptic Garden (plantings labeled
in alphabetical order) and ornamental trees and shrubs such as hawthorns,
dogwoods, pine, spruce, fir, and others.
Thompson Park
Rose Garden: 805 Newman Springs Road (Route 520),
Lincroft, NJ 07738
(732)842-4000.
- This 655 acre county park features an All-America Rose Selections
Display Garden, the Lambertus C. Bobbink Memorial Rose Garden.
Trailside Nature
and Science Center: 452 New Providence Road,
Mountainside, NJ 07092
(908)789-3670.
- This nature center features Herb, Wildflower and Butterfly
Gardens and 13 miles of nature trails.
Van Vleck Arboretum: Montclair
Art Museum, 3 South Mountain Avenue,
Montclair, NJ 07042-1747 (973)746- 5555.
- The Museum grounds are the Van Vleck Arboretum, a collection of native and
exotic trees.
Van Vleck House & Gardens:
21 Van Vleck Street,
Montclair, NJ 07042 (973)744-0837.
- This garden, comprising
a full city block, displays an extensive collection of rhododendrons and
azaleas, 50-year-old Chinese wisteria, and formal gardens extending from a 1916
Italianate villa. A
Garden
Conservancy Garden.
Wagner Farm
Arboretum: 197 Mountain Avenue,
Warren, NJ 07059. C
- urrently under
development, this will include formal gardens, leased garden spaces, a
greenhouse, handicapped accessible gardens, a butterfly garden, walking trails
and other related gardening activities.
Wallbridge Rose Garden:
Taylor Park,
Milburn, NJ 07041 (973)564-7058.
- This park includes rose gardens, boxwoods,
sorrel trees, holly, and a gazebo.
Warinanco
Park Garden: St. Georges Avenue,
Roselle, NJ (908)527-4910.
- This formal garden with 14,000 tulips and summer
annuals is a memorial to Henry Chatfield and is tended by the Union
County Parks Department. In addition, an Azalea Garden with hundreds of plants,
located just north of the Park Administration Building, begins to bloom in early April and continues through early June.
Well-Sweep Herb Farm: 205 Mt. Bethel
Road,
Port Murray, NJ 07865 (908)852-5390. A
- n 120 acre herb farm an Educational Display Herb
Garden, a Formal Garden with 80 types of geraniums, knot gardens and
more. Plants include 36 types of basils, 60 different lavenders, 80
varieties of thyme and over 100 scented-leaved geraniums.
Wick House Herb Garden: Tempe
Wicke Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown National Historic Park,
Morristown, NJ
07960 (973)539-2085.
- This home, site of a Revolutionary War encampment, displays
an 18th century herb and vegetable garden reminiscent of the Revolutionary
period.
William Trent House:
15 Market Street,
Trenton, NJ 08611 (609)989-3027.
- This 1719 Georgian brick
house was built by the man whom Trenton is named after.
Willowwood Arboretum:
300 Longview Road, C
hester, NJ 07930 (973)326-7600.
- The 130 acre arboretum has
3,500 types of plants including historic collections of oak, maple, willow,
magnolia, lilac, cherry, fir, pine, a Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia) now more than
98 feet tall, ferns and field and forest wildflowers. Two small formal gardens
grace the grounds of the residence.