The Willowwood Arboretum

Willowwood Arboretum is open free to the public daily, 365 days yearly from dawn to dusk. Visitors are invited to enjoy the gardens Spring through Fall. During Winter, the Ornamentals Collection offers evergreen and deciduous plants featuring interesting fruit, bark or branching habit. Willowwood, 130 acres of rolling farm land, has about 2,100 kinds of native and exotic plants, many of them are rare. In addition to the formal gardens near the residence and undisturbed forest, historic collections include oak, maple, willow, magnolia, lilac, cherry, fir, pine, a superb specimen of Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia) now more than 98' tall, masses of ferns and handsome stands of field and forest wild flowers. In 1908 two brothers used a small legacy to acquire their country home near Gladstone, New Jersey. The two brothers, Henry and Robert Tubbs, and Henry's adopted son, Dr. Benjamin Blackburn, developed this country place into the Willowwood Arboretum, New Jersey's most comprehensive and longest continually operating Arboretum. Since 1980 under the stewardship and management of the Morris County Park Commission, the Willowwood Foundation and the support and hard work of countless donors and volunteers have made it possible for the public to enjoy this beautiful green space of gardens and meadows.