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Summit and Short Hills, NJ Garden Tour

by DIG-IT

Five private gardens in Summit and Short Hills will be open to the public for a one day garden tour on Sunday, September, from 10am to 4pm, rain or shine. The fee for the tour is $25 for members of The Friends of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum and $35 for non-members. Pre-registration is required. The tour is co-sponsored by The Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum and DIG IT! Magazine to benefit The Frelinghuysen Arboretum.

The gardens vary from estates bordering a lake to quarter-acre lots. All are within 10 minutes of each other. Two Short Hills gardens include the properties of the owners of Seibert & Rice, importers of fine Italian terracotta planters. Both were designed by Richard Hartlage, landscape architect and former superintendent of horticulture for the Morris County Park Commission. One features a 1920s American Tudor home with dramatic views, formal and informal plantings, a sweeping viburnum and grass hedge, undulating beds of Oregon grape holly and bamboo, flowering borders, and a line of pee gee hydrangeas in massive terra cotta pots. The other, a 1/4-acre hillside garden, features espaliered trees, patio with fire pit surrounded by garden beds, tropicals potted in large terra cotta pots, and a terraced garden with stone steps climbing to secret spaces. A nearby property, designed by CLC Landscape Design for a classic feel with minimal maintenance while providing maximum enjoyment, features extensive rose gardens, statuary, garden nooks, a stand of tall black bamboo, crepe myrtle, and a sweeping terraced wall garden with a fountain and stone steps leading to a secluded garden of colorful shrubs.

Summit gardens include a ¼-acre lot with more than 300 varieties of blossoming plants and unusual flowering vines and over 100 shrubs in 4,000 square-feet of garden beds designed, created and maintained by the owners. The garden, designed after the 200+ English gardens visited by the owners, features a two-level deck enclosed with flowering vines, patio nestled into a flower bed, stone loveseat built into a bank, twin bridges over a swale, and an award-winning compost program. Nearby, a 1920s Tudor Norman-style house on 2 ½ acres features a woodland garden, French ruin courtyard with cordon and candelabra style apple trees, potted flowers and dwarf grasses between bluestone pavement, a pool garden with potted tropicals and annuals, and perennial and shrub borders. This garden was designed by Susan Cohan, certified landscape designer.


These five special gardens in Summit and Short Hills will be open to the public only on Sunday, September 19, from 10am to 4pm. Rain or shine. Cost: $25 for members of The Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum and $35 for non-members. Pre-registration required.

For more information and to register: 973-326-7603 or www.arboretumfriends.org/events
** Photos by Mary Jasch

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published August 09, 2010

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Garden of Mara Seibert


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Seas of grass


Vera sunroom garden


Tall bamboo in Vera garden


Terraced wall garden


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Front garden


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Sunset at Carlson garden.

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