Blithewold

Blithewold An American garden treasure. We are located on Narragansett Bay, 25 minutes east of Providence and 60 minutes south of Boston.
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Blithewold, the Van Wickle Family Country Place 1894 - 1976: Two generations of a prominent yet socially unpretentious American family. Explore diverse gardens, specimen trees, and a 45-room English style manor house filled with antiques and artwork, all chronicling the rich social history of the lives of one family over a span of more than 80 years. Blithewold was named in Yankee Magazine's 2010

Best 5 Public Gardens in New England. Our Mission: To preserve New England’s finest garden estate through excellence in horticulture and historic preservation, and by our example to teach and inspire others.

We're making "Toad Abodes" this Tuesday with our homeschoolers! 🐸🏠This last homeschool session of the year is a fan fav...
05/22/2026

We're making "Toad Abodes" this Tuesday with our homeschoolers! 🐸🏠

This last homeschool session of the year is a fan favorite -- kids use natural materials to construct beautiful and functional little homes fit for amphibious friends, and get to learn about them, too!

Toads are excellent insect and slug population managers. Creating a cool, damp, and secure daytime refuge for them helps keep your garden and yard pest-free.

This workshop is appropriate for ages 8-13. All materials provided.

📆: Tuesday, May
🕰: 10am-1:30pm
🎟: $5 Members Child/Adult | $4 Additional Member child OR $30 Nonmember Child/Adult | $8 Additional Nonmember child

Register here: https://www.blithewold.org/event/blithewold-homeschool-day/

POV: You're docenting this morning, and the Manor House is now open for visitors📸: Sandra Craig
05/22/2026

POV: You're docenting this morning, and the Manor House is now open for visitors

📸: Sandra Craig

"...'Reconstructing these two additional greenhouses has been a long-held dream for many of us for over fifteen years,' ...
05/21/2026

"...'Reconstructing these two additional greenhouses has been a long-held dream for many of us for over fifteen years,' said Executive Director Karen Binder.

'It's an exceptionally ambitious project,' said [Dan] Christina. 'No palm house has been built in the United States like this for 40-plus years.'..."

Thank you to East Bay Media Group for this piece about constructing our new (again) Palm and Rose Houses. We are very excited about restoring this missing chapter in Blithewold's history and honoring Bessie Van Wickle McKee's horticultural legacy.

Blithewold’s owner and visionary gardener Bessie Van Wickle McKee had the Lord and Burnham greenhouse complex constructed in 1901 as a place to nurture her growing collection of botanical …

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05/16/2026

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Connie + our Giant Sequoia = ♡(Did you know this is the largest one east of the Mississippi River?!) .ganley
05/15/2026

Connie + our Giant Sequoia = ♡

(Did you know this is the largest one east of the Mississippi River?!)

.ganley

Grateful for the important work of this White-footed Cryptus Wasp and all other pollinators 🫡
05/14/2026

Grateful for the important work of this White-footed Cryptus Wasp and all other pollinators 🫡



Rhode Island Threads' "Something of the Marvelous" opening reception is this Sunday, May 17 from1-3pm!This exhibit celeb...
05/14/2026

Rhode Island Threads' "Something of the Marvelous" opening reception is this Sunday, May 17 from1-3pm!

This exhibit celebrates the diversity of the natural world and the creativity it inspires. Textile-based works explore a wide range of techniques, including painting, dyeing, photography, weaving, embellishing, and stitching.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
This group of seventeen fiber artists are bound together by a passion for creating fiber art. Group members support, enrich, and inspire each other personally and creatively. RI Threads has been getting together since 2018, and derives strength from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and style.

Pre-registration is not required for Sunday's event. The exhibit will be in our gallery May 17 through June 21.

🌷🌷🌷American Public Gardens Association Go Public Gardens
05/13/2026

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American Public Gardens Association Go Public Gardens

Affectionately known as "The Frog Pond", this water feature is actually a repurposed hotbed that was used to overwinter ...
05/12/2026

Affectionately known as "The Frog Pond", this water feature is actually a repurposed hotbed that was used to overwinter plants many years ago.

American Public Gardens Association Go Public Gardens

A guardian of the grounds.
05/11/2026

A guardian of the grounds.


Address

101 Ferry Road
Bristol, RI
02809

Telephone

(401) 253-2707

Website

https://linktr.ee/blithewold

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