Spring Blooms Await at Green Animals Topiary Garden's Annual Plant Sale & Tours

This spring, the Green Animals Topiary Garden bursts into bloom with an enticing offer for plant lovers and green thumbs alike. From May 10-12, the garden will host its annual Plant Sale, coinciding with its seasonal opening for public tours. The event promises a vibrant selection of flowers, vegetables, herbs, and specialty plants – perfect for Mother’s Day gifts or to spruce up your own garden.

Trudy Coxe, CEO of the Preservation Society of Newport County, which maintains the Green Animals, shared her enthusiasm for the event. "The opening of Green Animals for the season is a sign that spring is finally in full stretch," she says. "Each year the Plant Sale is hugely popular, and it’s a great way to support the maintenance of this amazing garden."

Visitors can peruse the unique offerings of annuals, perennials, lilies, dahlia tubers, geranium standards, and hanging flower baskets, many of which are nurtured in the Preservation Society's own greenhouses. Following the morning's plant sale frenzy, the garden will open its gates for daily tours beginning May 11. Guests can marvel at more than 80 topiaries shaped like animals and geometric figures, some of which date back several decades.

Situated alongside Narragansett Bay, Green Animals holds the title as the oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States. It's renowned for its whimsical plant sculptures – including a giraffe, elephant, ostrich, and bears – all initiated in the early 20th century by Joseph Carreiro, an immigrant gardener from the Azores.

Beyond the topiaries, the garden showcases a variety of perennials, annuals, and shrubs that paint the landscape with color throughout the spring, summer, and fall seasons. The Plant Sale takes place 8-10am May 10-12; for more information or to purchase tickets for the garden, visit NewportMansions.org.