Rhode Island is home to some of the more beautiful private gardens you will ever see as well as some of historic importance but if you are not lucky enough to get an invite don’t fret there are still lots of beautiful landscaped gardens for your to visit and marvel over.

1. Blithewold Mansion, in Bristol RI. Located on Narragansett Bay, 25 minutes east of Providence and 60 minutes south of Boston, Blithewold is one of the finest garden estates in New England. Your exploration of Blithewold will include diverse gardens, specimen trees, and a 45-room English style manor house, all chronicling the rich social history of the lives of one family over a span of more than 80 years
2. Wilcox Park, in Westerly, RI.  “The people shall have a park.” So saying, in 1898 Harriet Wilcox purchased and donated to the Memorial and Library association the seven acre Rowse Babcock estate in the heart of Westerly’s business district
3. Block Island, at Block Island, RI.  Birds stop here while migrating in the spring and fall along the Atlantic Flyway. In addition to the plants and animals, the human community is dedicated to conserving open space to preserve their natural and cultural heritage.
4. Linden Place, in Bristol, RI. Madam Colt ran Bristol Society from Linden Place as if she was Queen Victoria and the great actress Ethel Barrymore who married in to this most prominent of American families. At the tour’s end, visitors are welcome to stroll the sculpture-filled gardens where they will find Greek bronzes and an 18th Century gazebo.
5. Prescott Farm Garden, on Aquidneck Island, RI.  The plant varieties grown in the gardens represent what many Aquidneck Islanders may have used for food, medicine and other utilitarian purposes in the colonial era

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