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The Willowwood Foundation:
Currently, the Willowwood Foundation primarily supports restoration and garden projects at the Willowwood Arboretum, and provides annual grants for horticultural interns, garden maintenance and restoration and plantings for the gardens and key collections.
The Willowwood Foundation celebrates the “Lilac Party” tradition of Hal Tubbs and Dr. Ben Blackburn the third Sunday of May each year as its primary fundraiser.
In partnership with the Morris County Park Commission, a topical horticulture lecture series - The Tubbs Lecture - is offered annually in late Spring honoring the memory of Robert and Henry Tubbs, owners of Willowwood.
In 1960, Dr. Ben Blackburn and Russell W. Myers, Landscape Architect and Secretary Director of the Morris County Park Commission (1957-1983), established the Willowwood Foundation to protect the Willowwood treasure.
The Willowwood Foundation is a non profit (Section 501(c)(3) under the Internal Revenue code) educational organization incorporated in 1960 in the State of New Jersey to nurture an appreciation for and knowledge of botany, horticulture and the natural world through its support of public education, written materials and facilities to promote use, access and information about native and exotic plants.
The Willowwood Foundation needs and welcomes your support and invites you to join a most unique organization which is working to preserve New Jersey’s Garden Heritage.
Yes, I want to help. All donations are tax deductible as allowable by law. Click here to go to our Donate to Willowwood page where you can even donate on line.
Willowwood Board of Trustees:
Brace Krag, President Meryl Carmel, Vice President Stathis Andris, Treasurer Alice Cutler, Secretary Leslie Allain, Assistant Secretary Dr. Joseph Arvay |
Willowwood Foundation, PO Box 218, Gladstone, NJ 07934
Office Phone: 908 234 1815 (seasonal)
Email: wwfoundation@willowwoodfoundation.com
Newsletters

Fall 2019
Click on our latest newsletter (above) to download it to your browser.
Want to subscribe? Click here for our on-line subscription form.
You may look at recent newsletters here:
- Spring 2019
- Winter 2019
- Fall 2018
- Spring 2018
- Fall 2017
- Spring 2017
- Winter 2017
- Fall 2016
- Spring 2016
Or click here for our Willowwood Journal Archive page.
See the article about the Spring 2018 Lilac Party in the latest Black River Journal (BRJ) by clicking the image above.
Willowwood is not new to the BRJ -- here is an article from 2008 commemorating Willowwood's Centennial.
The Willowwood Arboretum
Now OPEN Daily, 8 am to Dusk. Masks and Social Distancing please.
No Dogs, Horses etc. permitted.
No Smoking Permitted.
A facility of the
Morris County
Park Commission.