Harvard Club of New Jersey

Visit the beautiful Monfried Garden!

Join the Harvard Club of New Jersey for a stroll through a beautiful private garden maintained by Lanis and Tom Monfried, one of the Garden Conservancy's featured gardens.

Join the Harvard Club of New Jersey for a stroll through a beautiful private garden maintained by Lanis and Tom Monfried. The front garden showcases borders of perennials, shrubs, and bulbs, with roses. In the back garden, the path leads through a partly shaded perennial border under an arch into a shady raised-bed garden, continues through a woodland garden planted with spring ephemerals, then past a long hedgerow featuring a mix of conifers and deciduous flowering shrubs underplanted with perennials and bulbs. Beds around the swimming pool feature witch hazel, pagoda dogwood, smoke tree, hydrangea, and many shade-loving perennials. Near the house, another ‘Zephirine Drouhin’ and Clematis ‘Silmakivi’ drape over a path. Throughout the garden, there are more clematis trained through the branches of deciduous shrubs. A small raised-bed garden near the patio provides vegetables in season. Apricot and plum trees grow nearby.

The visit is self-guided, though Lanis Monfried will be on hand to take questions. It begins at 11:00 AM.

The cost is $5, payable when you arrive. Please RSVP to tom514@optonline.net so that we know how many to expect.

Directions:

From the south, take Route 17 North through Paramus. After the Hollywood Avenue Exit get in the right lane. Take the second Sheridan Avenue exit to Waldwick (westbound). Go under Route 17, then immediately bear right up ramp. Turn left onto Prospect Avenue. At first traffic light, turn left onto Franklin Turnpike. At next light, turn right onto Wyckoff Avenue. Go through two lights, then at third light, turn right onto Crescent Avenue (there is a 7-11 and a Walgreens at this intersection). In about 0.5 mile, will see “Welcome to Allendale” sign. In a short distance the road will go downhill. At bottom of hill, turn left onto Beresford Road. Go one block and turn right onto Schuyler Road. Go one block, and turn right onto Stone Fence Road. Our garden is at the third house on right.

From the north and New York Thruway, take Exit 15 to Route 17 and Route 287 South. At end of exit ramp, stay left onto Route 17 South. Go about 4.5 miles and exit onto Lake Street Ramsey. At top of ramp bear left to traffic light. Go straight through light onto Crescent Avenue. Go straight through three more lights (Franklin Turnpike, Hillsdale Avenue, Brookside Avenue) After Brookside, the road curves and goes downhill. At bottom of the hill, turn right onto Beresford Road and proceed as directed above.