Green Animals Topiary Garden
Formal Garden · Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Seven acres above Narragansett Bay in Portsmouth, planted from 1872 and described as the oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States. Around eighty sculpted trees and shrubs stand across it, among them a menagerie of animal figures shaped in California privet and English boxwood — a giraffe, an elephant, a camel, a bear. Alice Brayton, who inherited the property and named it, left it to the Preservation Society of Newport County on her death in 1972, which is why a working nineteenth-century estate garden survives intact.
380 Cory's Lane, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 02871, United States
⚠ STRONGLY SEASONAL AND CLOSED FOR MOST OF THE YEAR. Broadly open daily from about early May to the end of August, then weekends and Labor Day through September, and closed from the autumn until the following spring — confirm the current dates on newportmansions.org before travelling, because they shift year to year and this is the most common wasted trip in the area. Opening hours are generally 09:00 to 17:00 with last admission about an hour before closing. Adult admission is in the region of $25, and ⚠ IT IS INCLUDED IN PRESERVATION SOCIETY COMBINATION TICKETS — check whether a mansion ticket you already hold covers it. Free parking on site. The visit is entirely outdoors with no wet-weather shelter.
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