Pansies, daffodils and violets – oh my!

The Garden Club of Long Beach Island maintains the Edith Duff Gwinn Gardens outside the Barnegat Light Historical Museum, seen here, in addition to the Beach Haven Library Garden. Both gardens are open to the public all year.

Botanist and environmentalist Edith Duff Gwinn was a member of the Barnegat Light Historical Society and the Garden Club of LBI. In the 1960s, she set out to see the Barnegat Light Museum grounds, at 501 Central Avenue, transformed from a barren yard to a beautiful garden,…