Friday, July 24, 2026
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Noticed a clumping bamboo: Fargesia
dracocephala/Dragon Head Bamboo |
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Frelinghuysen Mansion (1891, by Rotch & Tilden
in Colonial Revival style) was the summer estate of
George G Frelinghuysen (patent attorney and son of
Frederick T Frelinghuysen who was Secretary of State
under Chester Arthur) and his wife, Sara Ballantine
Frelinghuysen (granddaughter of the founder of the
P Ballantine Brewing Company); their daughter Matilda
turned the property into an arboretum and bequeathed
it to the people of Morris County |
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| An unusual enclosed West Porch |
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| Mansion Garden |
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| Fountain Rose Garden |
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| Hydrangea arborescens/Smooth Hydrangeas |
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Rosa 'Auswhirl'/'The Poet’s Wife' English Rose
in the Heritage Rose Garden |
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| Heritage Rose Garden Planter |
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Pleroma heteromallum/Silver-leafed
Princess Flower (but no flower) |
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| Mansion Rose Garden (KSS) |
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| Rosa rugosa/Rugosa Roses (KSS) |
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| Sundial |
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| Rose Garden Fountain |
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Begonia solimutata/Sun-changing Begonia
was likened to Naugahyde by one visitor |
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Knot Garden (a square formal, geometric garden
style featuring low, intertwined hedges) |
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| Gazebo |
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| Impatiens auricoma/Golden Impatiens |
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| Fern Garden |
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| Bench in the Fern Garden |
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Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Pendulum'/Weeping Katsura
is a New Jersey Champion Tree |
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| Cedrus altantica/Blue Atlas Cedar |
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| Blue Atlas Cedar cone |
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| Japanese Maple Lawn |
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America 250 18th Century American Garden with
Tagetes patula 'Disco Orange', Gomphrena globosa,
Celosia 'Cramer's Burgundy', Lantana camara 'Miss Huff',
Verbena bonariensis, and Zinnia haageana 'Persian Carpet'
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| Rock Garden |
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| Blue Garden |
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| Vegetable Garden |
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| Special Needs Garden |
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| Waterwise Garden |
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| Frelinghuysen Carriage House (1891) is now the Visitor Center |
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| Inside the carriage house |
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Nearby is Acorn Hall (1853, expanded in 1860 by
Augustus Crane in Victorian Italianate style) |
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Earthenware urn (1924) were used by the
General Chemical Division to manufacture
hydrochloric acid and were retired in 1961 |
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| The gardens at the rear of Acorn Hall |
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