Presby Memorial Iris Garden
May 23 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Visit the rainbow on the hill
Come see one of the best public gardens in the United States. The Presby Memorial Iris Garden has more than 14,000 irises of approximately 3,000 varieties and produces more than 100,000 blooms over the course of the season. (Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and irises come in all colors.)
The Gardens were started in 1927 as a memorial to Frank H. Presby, one of the founders of the American Iris Society and a leading citizen of Montclair. Frank Presby was an iris hybridizer and owned a fine iris collection. It was his expressed wish to give a collection of his favorite flower, the iris, to Montclair’s newly acquired Mountainside Park.
We will visit the garden and then find someplace to have lunch.