With its serene beauty and distinctive merging of American and Asian flora, the John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden, located in Mill Neck, New York, is a wonderful blending of Japanese aesthetics and gardening principles with the rugged terrain and natural beauty of Long Island’s North Shore.

Just an hour away from New York City and the Hamptons, the four-acre garden is noted for its sophisticated Japanese-style stroll garden, inspired by John and Jean Humes’s travels to Kyoto in 1960. Carefully tended gravel- and moss-covered paths lead the visitor on a path of discovery up a hillside and down again to a Japanese tea house by a peaceful pond and waterfall. A simple plant palette illustrates related Asian and American species of plants, while the quiet beauty and design of the garden integrates Japanese garden elements with the native woodland.