Presby Iris Gardens

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Presby iris gardens. Presby iris gardens upper montclair. Feed your iris passion. Montclair nj is home to the rainbow on the hill otherwise known as the iris gardens.

Every year from mid may to mid june visitors from all over the world come to presby memorial iris gardens where about 1 500 varieties of irises yield more than 100 000 blooms over the course of. A founder frank presby of the american iris society was a citizen of montclair. Adjacent to the gardens is a victorian house the walther house.

Our popular iris plant sale returns with difficult to get historic and modern bearded iris. Presby memorial iris gardens is a nonprofit volunteer run living museum specializing in iris flowers located at 474 upper mountain avenue montclair in essex county new jersey new jersey united states the gardens are situated on 6 5 acres. It is the largest public iris garden in the united states and is listed on both the state and national registers of historic sites.

The house is open to the public and is home to a museum shop and headquarters for the. The essex county presby memorial iris gardens is an internationally renowned garden that began with flower donations from the presby family john wister american iris society kellogg gardens joseph van vleck and international admirers. These iris are field grown at the presby farm.

A limited number of beardless iris are available. The gardens were established in 1927 in honor of frank presby. He planned to give some of those to montclair however he passed away before he could.

Presby memorial iris gardens is an essex county park in new jersey maintained by the nonprofit citizens committee. Presby memorial iris gardens contain over 14 000 irises which typically bloom in mid may. Presby was a horticulturalist who helped found the american iris society in 1920.