Vision:
The unique and nationally significant American landscape that is Greenwood Gardens endows visitors with renewed spirit, heart, and vision through tours, classes, workshops, and other educational programs.

Public access to Greenwood Gardens is severely limited by structural instabilities in its historic landscape and architecture. We must immediately address major safety concerns so that visitors may fully engage in all that Greenwood offers. We are working hard to preserve the wonder and serenity of this public sanctuary for generations to come. Please join us to preserve and revitalize this glorious garden.

About Us:

Greenwood Gardens is preserving the gardens, architecture and landscape of Greenwood for the education and delight of the public. Greenwood fosters an appreciation of gardens and a respect for nature by working with others to promote conservation and stewardship of the land. 

Greenwood Gardens is a 28-acre public garden surrounded by 2,110 acres of Essex County Park System's South Mountain Reservation. The Gardens were a private estate until 2003, when the Blanchard family decided to transform them into a public garden.

Astride the western ridge of the Watchung Mountains and overlooking a vast preserve of forest and meadow, Greenwood is a contemporary garden and historic site rooted in the Arts & Crafts and Classical approaches to garden design. With Italianate garden terraces, grottoes, meandering moss-covered paths, allées of London plane and spruce trees, ornamental trees and shrubs, and wildflower meadows, Greenwood Gardens is a place of horticultural excellence. Removed from the sights and sounds of modernity, you will be transported back in time. Repeat visits are common.