Green Animals Topiary Garden

380 Corys Lane
Portsmouth, RI, 02871
401-683-1267

URL : http://www.newportmansions.org/page3549.cfm

overview : There are 80 pieces of topiary throughout the gardens, including 21 animals and birds in addition to geometric figures and ornamental designs - Green Animals is the oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States. Upon her death in 1972, at the age of 94, Miss Brayton left Green Animals to The Preservation Society of Newport County. Today, Green Animals remains as a rare example of a self-sufficient estate combining formal topiaries, vegetable and herb gardens, orchards and a Victorian house overlooking Narragansett Bay.

topics : arboretums, rhode, island