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The garden of Ruby and Martin Weinberg, Califon. This six-acre, thirty-five-year-old garden is a garden of happy plants. Frivolously-blooming dogwoods and crab apple, and a shrub/perennial border of blended monochromatic swaths lead to a spring-fed pond. Double trillium under mature rhododendron, beds of azaleas and wild flowers, a stream garden with almost floating blossoms, blueberry patch, and rock garden. Ruby, a landscape designer, is the author of The Garden Reborn.
The garden of Jim Avens and Gary Moyer, Lebanon Township. Two-acre, 12-year-old naturalistic garden with striking natural rock outcrops among oak and hickory. Native perennials and cultivars of native shrubs and trees form a backdrop for unusual shade perennials such as Astilboides tabularis, Glaucidium palmatum, and Deinanthe caerulea with bold leaves to contrast textures. The half-acre front garden consists of deer-resistant shrubs, perennials and ferns. The back one and a half acres contains mixed perennial and shrub beds, various garden and sitting areas, water feature, and a tiny, intensively planted vegetable and herb garden. Potted tender perennials and annuals decorate the sunny patio. Jim is Superintendent of The Leonard J. Buck Garden of the Somerset County Park Commission.
Designed for year-round interest, the thirty-seven-year-old, three-and-a-half-acre mature garden features over 1,000 specimens of 200 different cultivars of rhododendron and azalea species and hybrids. Various gardens consist of Driveway borders of oldest viburnums, dogwoods, rhodies and azaleas; Butterfly and Hummingbird, Rock, Dexter (rhododendrons), Shade, Woodland, and Backyard Borders with water feature. Those who pack a lunch can sit and enjoy it on a garden bench. Connie is a Master Gardener.
Katherine Yvinskas, Schooley’s Mountain. In this chemical-free, naturalistic, one-acre sun and shade garden, plants grow in an unstructured format within borders – a mosaic of the tame and wild. A native woodland garden leads to the back, deer-enclosed garden in which shrub roses, medicinal plants, native perennials and shrubs, berry bushes and non-native perennials intermingle. “I like to see things blend and flow.” Katherine is an artist and herbalist.
Proprietor Hildegarde Howell offers a 20% discount on all plants (except orchids) on this day only to tour-takers. She specializes in unusual perennials, shrubs and trees and new varieties. She has a greenhouse full of orchids. Visit the one-acre, 40-year-old display garden with interesting old trees. Please bring your registration confirmation with you.
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