Where to View Herb Gardens in NJ and NYC areas

A view from the Bonnefort Garden outside the magical Plants section

Public Herb Gardens in New Jersey & New York City

Brooklyn Botanic Garden 900 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225. The Herb Garden is designed to be a kitchen garden that reflects the diversity of Brooklyn. www.bbg.org.

Cloisters. The Bonnefort Medieval Herb Garden includes over 300 medicinal, culinary, dye, magical and aromatic herbs. http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/visit-the-cloisters/

Davis Johnson Park & Lissemore Rose Garden.137 Engle St., Tenafly, NJ.07670.201-569-7275. An herb garden is part of this former estate, as is a rose collection.

Dey Mansion, 199 Totowa Rd., Wayne, NJ, 07470. 973-696-1776. The site features a blacksmith shop, herb and vegetable gardens.
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Duran-Hedden House and Garden, 523 Ridgewood Rd., Grasmere Park, Maplewood, NJ, 07040. 973-763-7712.
Maplewood Garden Club maintains an extensive herb garden on the 18th century farmhouse (undergoing restoration.)

Earth Center Circle of Thyme Herb Garden. Davidson Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Ave., South Brunswick, NJ 08902. 732-398-5260. A 13 bed herb garden is maintained by the Rutgers Master
Gardeners of Middlesex County. Culinary, medicinal and aesthetic herbs are included.

Garretson Forge and Farm Restoration Inc.4-02 River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 The gardens have specimen and heirloom crops as well as an herb garden. This herb garden has over 80 kinds of culinary, dye and medicinal herbs. http://www.garretsonfarm.org/

The Hermitage 335 N. Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423. The Gothic Revival house has a kitchen herb garden. http://www.thehermitage.org/   Click here for a downloadable, printable  flyer that describes the herbs in the garden.

Israel Crane House. 108 Orange Rd., Montclair, NJ. 973-744-1796. Features a 1796 Federal style home with a kitchen/herb garden.

Miller-Cory House Museum, 614 Mountain Ave., Westfield, NJ 07090. Vegetable and herb (culinary, dye, medicinal) gardens.

Osborn Cannonball House Museum. 1840 Front Street, Scotch Plains, NJ.07076. The 18th century house includes an authentic colonial herb garden.

New Jersey State Botanical Garden (Skylands) 1304 Sloatsburg Rd., Ringwood State Park, Morris Rd., Ringwood, NJ, 07456.973-962-7527. A number of Native American herbs, such as Wintergreen line the stream in a walk on the land.

Reeves-Reed Arboretum. 165 Hobart Ave., Summit, NJ.07901. 908-273-8787. The estate, which covers an expanse of 13 acres, features a patterned herb garden.

Well Sweep Herb Farm, 205 Mount Bethel Rd., Port Murray, NJ. 07865. 908-852-5390.There are several educational display gardens, ranging from the labeled medicinal garden to the formal knotted garden. This one of a kind nursery has over 2,000 herbs in its stock, a number of which are from the owner’s award-winning plant hybridization. The medicinal plants are labeled with kind of effect of the herb.

Wick House Herb Garden. Tempe Wicke Rd., Jockey Hollow, Morristown National Historic Park, Morristown, NJ.07960. 973-539-2085.The home site of Revolutionary encampment has an 18th century herb and vegetable garden.