Seasonal Highlights
The Willowwood Arboretum
can be enjoyed
every day of the year
from 8 am to Dusk.
Blooming Seasons
(subject to Mother Nature’s whims):
| January | Conifers — Winter Garden Hollies — Holly Lawn Interesting Bark — throughout |
| February | Skunk Cabbage — Woodwalk Snowdrops — Cornus mas Bed & Rockery Winter Aconite — Cottage Garden & Terrace Winter Jasmine — Stone Cottage Witch Hazels — Parking Lot, Winter Garden & around Tubbs House |
| March | Crocus —Entrance Drive, Parking Lot, Private Drive Hellebores — Cornus mas Bed, Rockery & Stone Barn Scilla — Cornus mas Bed & Rockery Winter Jasmine — Stone Cottage Witch Hazels — Parking Lot Winter Garden & around Tubbs House — Bluebirds return! |
| April | Cherries — Orchard Daffodils — Entrance Drive & Winter Garden Early Perennials — Rockery & Cottage Garden Magnolias — throughout Pansies — Stone Barn, Pan’s Garden & Cottage Garden Shadbush — hedgerows |
| May | Azaleas, Crabapples — throughout Dogwood — throughout Ferns, Japanese Primroses — Woodwalk Lilacs — Lilac Collection, Overflow Parking, Highland Park Pansies — Stone Barn, Pan’s Garden & Cottage Garden Peonies — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Redbud — hedgerows & woods Spring Perennials — Cottage Garden & Rockery Tulips — Stone Barn & Pan’s Garden Viburnum — Orchard Virginia Bluebells — Cottage Garden, Stone Cottage |
| June | Annuals — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Early Summer Perennials — Cottage Garden, Pan’s Garden & Rosarie Roses — Cottage Garden & Rosarie |
| July | Annuals — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Mid-Summer Perennials — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Meadow Flowers — Entrance Drive |
| August | Annuals — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Late Summer Perennials — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Meadow Flowers — Entrance Drive |
| September | Annuals — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Fall Fruits — Highland Park, Orchard, Winter Garden, Fall Meadow Flowers & Grasses — Entrance Drive Early Fall Perennials — Cottage Garden & Rosarie |
| October | Annuals — Cottage Garden & Rosarie Fall Foliage & Fruit — throughout Late Fall Meadow Flowers & Grasses — Entrance Drive Late Fall Perennials — Cottage Garden & Rosarie |
| November & December | Conifers — Winter Garden Hollies — Holly Lawn Interesting Bark — throughout |
Henry and Robert Tubbs enjoyed the beauty of the Willowwood Landscape year round and Winter was no exception. In fact, a number of plants in the collection are particularly ornamental during the late Autumn and Winter months. Some are evergreen, some deciduous but many have interesting fruit, bark or branching habit.
Start your tour opposite the entrance to the ‘Stone Barn' and continue to the left.
Click here to read about the rest of this walk.
Special Collections:
- Champion Trees - click for "Willowwood Arboretum Champion Trees" by Mark Inzano, Manager of Horticulture (added March 2019)
- Cherries - click here for "Ornamental Cherries at Willowwood."
- Lilacs - click here for "Lilac Lore.", and here for Lilacs at Willowwood.
- Magnolias - click here for our Magnolia Tour. Click here for a list of Willowwood's magnolia collection as of March, 2014. Here too is a Benjamin Blackburn article, Magnolias at Willowwood.
- Boxwoods - a tour of Willowwood's boxwood collections.
- Viburnums - Viburnums at Willowwood (Fall 2018 update). Also, Fred Spicer article, Viburnums: Shrubs of Distinction. Fred was the Morris Park Commission's Superintendent of Horticulture from 1996-2001. Finally, here is a clipping from the Fall 1996 Willowwood Journal about the Black Haw Viburnums palnted at the back porch of the Tubbs House.
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
Normally open 8 am to sunset daily. Closed effective 3/20 to 5/31/20 due to Covid 19.
No Dogs, Horses etc. permitted.
No Smoking Permitted.
A facility of the
Morris County
Park Commission.