| Deep Cut Gardens | |
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 The rose parterre at Deep Cut Gardens | |
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| Type | Botanical garden |
| Location | Middletown Township, New Jersey, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°23′N 74°08′W / 40.39°N 74.13°W |
| Area | 54 acres (0.22 km2) |
| Created | 1978 |
| Owned by | Monmouth County |
| Operated by | Monmouth County Park System |
| Visitors | 114,781 (2022)[1] |
| Open | 7 AM to dusk[2] |
| Status | Open all year |
| Website | www.monmouthcountyparks.com |
Deep Cut Gardens is a public botanical garden in Middletown Township, New Jersey, in the United States. Adjacent to Tatum Park, the 54-acre (22 ha) garden is dedicated to home gardening, and is visited by 100,000 visitors a year. The park features a variety of gardens, including a rockery, a display greenhouse, a rose parterre and a Japanese garden. The gardens also host a variety of educational programs relating to home gardening, and the 4,000-volume Elvin McDonald Horticultural Library.
The garden passed through a number of owners before being acquired by the Monmouth County Park System, with the most famous being mobster Vito Genovese. Although Genovese's mansion on the grounds of the present park burnt down in 1937, the park contains numerous traces of his ownership, including stately Sargent's weeping hemlocks, the rock garden and a small rock replica of Mount Vesuvius, alluding to Genovese's birthplace of Naples.
- ^ "2022 Annual Report" (PDF). Monmouth County. Monmouth County Park System. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
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