Visit New Jersey’s public gardens to see our native plants in cultivation and get ideas for your own Jersey-Friendly yard.

Rutgers Gardens

Rutgers Gardens, located on the campus of Rutgers University, is free to visitors and open 365 days a year. The gardens feature both New Jersey native plants and Jersey-Friendly non-natives.  A holly collection, rain garden, and water conservation terrace garden are just a few of its diverse botanical gardens and special collections. Rutgers Gardens also offers tours and educational programs throughout the year. Rutgers Gardens, 140 Log Cabin Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Native Plant Gardens at Jakes Branch County Park

As part of the Ocean County Soil Conservation District’s Soil Health Improvement Project at Jakes Branch County Park, the American Littoral Society designed five native plant gardens for different environmental conditions a homeowner or landscaper may encounter. There is a butterfly garden, shade garden, sun garden, wet garden, and rain garden. Native Plant Gardens at Jakes Branch County Park, 1100 Double Trouble Road, Beachwood, NJ 08722

Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County Display Garden

The Master Gardener Program of Ocean County added native woodland plants to the display garden in front of the county Extension building and created a guide to the native species planted there. Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County, 1623 Whitesville Road, Toms River, NJ 08755

Foote’s Pond Wood

The Friends of Foote’s Pond Wood is a grassroots group dedicated to the care and preservation of Foote’s Pond Wood, a 24-acre Morristown park adjacent to Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. This accessible park supports a rich, diverse plant and animal community with several habitats, and has a native plant demonstration garden. Foote’s Pond Wood, 134 James Street, Morristown, NJ 07960

Pohatcong Native Arboretum

The Pohatcong Native Arboretum, Native Tree Museum of northwest New Jersey, is a collection of 160 species of native trees, shrubs, and vines organized into 38 plant families. The plants, which are all native to New Jersey, are identified by plaques with common, family, genus, and species names. The arboretum has one of the most comprehensive collections of local native woody plants in the mid-Atlantic region. Pohatcong Native Arboretum, 56 Mine Hill Road, Washington, NJ 07882

Garden State Gardens: A Consortium of New Jersey’s Public Gardens

See native plants growing at most of the 23 public gardens in the consortium.  A printable brochure provides information about visiting these gardens located throughout the state.