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.

The land making up Deep Cut Gardens was first settled by Europeans after the Monmouth Tract was granted to Quaker settlers in 1665.

[4] In 1928, the Danglers built a two-storey, eight-room Colonial Revival mansion on a hilltop overlooking the property and with views of Sandy Hook and New York Harbor.

Genovese remodeled the c. 1900s gardener's cottage into a garage with servants' quarters overhead,[6] and expanded the mansion to twelve rooms.

[8] Genovese reputedly gave a free hand to Stoudt,[5] with his only condition that the gardens contained a small rock replica of Mount Vesuvius as a reminder of his birthplace in Naples.

"[8] Therefore, Stoudt opted to build a "pseudo-Italian" rock garden on the steep slope behind the house, with terraced water pools, large Sargent's weeping hemlocks and the Vesuvius replica.

[12] The fire, which required 4,000 feet (1,200 m) of hoses and two hours to extinguish, resulted in the complete loss of the mansion and an estimated $80,000 worth of damages, although the gardener's cottage and greenhouse were saved.

The remaining half of the property was purchased by the park system using funds from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Green Acres Program.

[9] After receiving Deep Cut Farm in 1977, the park system worked over the next year restoring neglected parts of the property including uncovering the remains of the Theodore Stoudt–designed rose parterre.

Aerial photographs of the original garden were used to inform the restoration, which repaired the crumbling stone walls and replanted the rose beds.

The park is intended as a "living catalogue" of cultivated and native plants, and is also dedicated to educating and assisting home gardeners.

The terraced "pseudo-Italian" rockery was designed by Theodore Stoudt and features three cascading pools which draw water from a deep well on the property.

[22] To the immediate north of the display greenhouse is a small Japanese garden planted by the Wihtols, featuring stone lanterns, statues and conifers.

The garden, shaded by a canopy of tulip poplar and spruce trees,[2] is home to shade-tolerant plants including columbines, wild gingers, foamflowers and azaleas.