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The Newport Tree Conservancy is committed to supporting the health and resiliency of trees in Newport, RI. We are connecting our community with their city-wide arboretum, and planting the next generation of Newport’s urban forest.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

We are educating and engaging the next generation of green professionals, citizen foresters and conservationists.

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Tree Planting Programs

To maintain a healthy public tree population in Newport we must plant roughly 120 new trees annually to replace those lost or removed each year due to damage, decay or disease. The Newport Tree Conservancy subsidizes every tree planted in Newport’s public spaces. The maintenance of our amazing urban forest requires steady, vigilant work. We offer three planting programs that invite citizens to join us and the City of Newport in the critical work of maintaining a health urban forest: 

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Arboreta of Aquidneck Island

Aquidneck Island is home to more accredited arboreta than any other community in the world.

We are proud to live in a community so uniquely and unequivocally dedicated to its legendary trees. The beautiful arboreta in Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth are helping care for a tree canopy extraordinarily rich in specimen trees on an island whose landscapes narrate the history of American landscape architecture, horticulture, and garden design like no other place in America.

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The unmistakable red horse chestnut (Aesculus x carnea) is this week’s choice, in full bloom and looking delightful along Bowery Street at Kingscote. Noting the size and deep color of the flowers, it is very likely that our individual is the cu
Join NTC on Wednesday, May 31st, for a tour of the charming Weetamoe Arboretum! Come with us to explore this pollinator haven, view the duck pond, and the "Quarter-Acre Wood." This is a unique experience you won't want to miss! Only a very
For all the great mothers out there, I’ve selected the woody plant most closely associated with this important day, the beautiful common lilac (Syringa vulgaris). Our feature is 3 varieties of greatly differing colors planted in a group, creati
Reaching out over the small parking lot behind the Newport Art Museum, the eye-catching Kwanzan cherry (Prunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’), or Japanese flowering cherry, is this week’s chosen tree. A very common flowering tree, perhaps too
Next week on Wednesday, May 10th, join the Newport Tree Conservancy for a guided tour of Toad Hall Arboretum! This beautiful seaside home was the first private residence in Portsmouth to earn arboretum accreditation from ArbNet. Come see for yourself
This week’s tree is the robust flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa), a spectacular sight at the intersection of Bliss Road and Whitwell Avenue. Once again, you could certainly argue tree status for our rosaceous friend, but this organism cer
We have another magnolia to feature this week, the Ann Magnolia (Magnolia x ‘Ann’), steadily approaching full flower in Rovensky Park. Identification wasn’t immediate with this plant, but I was confident that the magnolia was a memb
This week’s selection is the admirable snow goose cherry (Prunus x ‘Snow Goose’), in peak flower under the hot sun at the intersection of Duke and Marlborough Street. A hybrid cultivar that deserves wider use, the tree makes itself
The lily tree, or Yulan magnolia (Magnolia denudata), is this week’s highly anticipated selection, standing out breathtakingly in the lawn of Chateau-ser-Mer. I think there is little argument that this tree is one of the most beautiful magnolia
The first Tree of the Week for April is a personal favorite, the cornelian cherry dogwood (Cornus mas), planted along the fence to the tennis courts in Aquidneck Park. One of the first trees to flower in the spring, the cornelian cherry is at an adva

 

 

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