Buck Garden Featured in New NJ Garden Book

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The Somerset County Park Commission Leonard J. Buck Garden located at 11 Layton Road in Far Hills, New Jersey, is featured in a recently released book, Gardens of the Garden State by Nance Berner and Susan Lowry and  published by Monacelli Press.

Gardens of the Garden State is “a glorious photographic tour of the public and private gardens of New Jersey—from historic formal gardens of former estates, to suburb gardens, horticulturists’ havens, and fresh takes on front yards,” according to the Monacelli Press web site. The book is available on most literature web sites.

The book selects twenty-eight gardens from Skylands, to the New York border, to the elegant formal gardens of Short Hills, Bernardsville, and Oldwick, to a wildlife garden filled with frogs and butterflies, and a lighthouse garden near Cape May.

Buck Garden is among New Jersey’s more than 60 public gardens and arboreta in 15 counties and is recognized as one of the premier rock gardens in the eastern United States. Buck Garden consists of a series of alpine and woodland garden areas situated in a 29-acre wooded stream valley.

Tucked among the rocks are rare and exotic rock garden plants. The wooded trails connecting the outcroppings are lined with beautiful wildflowers that have flourished and multiplied through the years. Throughout the garden grow various trees, shrubs, and perennials.

Information about the gardens and other Somerset County Park Commission activities may be found on the Internet at www.somersetcountyparks.org.