Enjoy the Willowwood Arboretum Daily from 8 am to Dusk.
Approximate 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 |
Autumn Ornamentals Walk
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.”, ’22 Lilac Tour Brochure, 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 planted at the back porch of the Tubbs House.
