Their families utilized the 51-room Victorian mansion as a summer residence. Hewitt, owners of the successful Cooper and Hewitt Ironworks Company, owned Ringwood Manor. In the mid-19 century, Peter Cooper and Abram S. Iron production in this area began in the 1740s. This beautiful country house, which was home for a succession of well-known iron masters for nearly 200 years, sits comfortably on a low hill overlooking a landscape that looks as if it escaped from a painting. For these activities, please visit either the Ringwood Manor or Shepherd Lake picnic areas. Picnics, barbecues, blankets, lawn chairs, lawn games, and ball playing are not permitted in the Skylands section of the park. The NJBG/Skylands Assocation is a member-supported, non-profit organization of volunteers founded in 1976 to help the state of New Jersey preserve and restore the gardens and Manor House, and to develop programs for public education and enjoyment throughout the year. Skylands is also a safe haven for unusual plant species from around the world. Here you can wander through the elegance of formal gardens or along gentle paths winding through the woods. Visitors can tour the gardens and surrounding woods year round.įrom the delicate shades of a tiny wildflower to the vibrant colors of massed annual plantings, Skylands is a place of beauty in any season. The extensive vistas of the garden and view of Ramapo Mountains frame this 96-acre botanical showplace. Of particular interest are the crabapple vista, terraced gardens, perennial and annual gardens and woodland paths.
The garden contains an extensive variety of plants, evergreens and deciduous trees and shrubs in specialty areas. Dedicated in 1984, the garden is the culmination of two eras of landscape architecture under the direction of Francis Lynde Stetson, owner of Skylands from 1891 to 1922.
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