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The company is seeking input from the Newport community as to what should be included on the board.

PORTSMOUTH — The teddy bear, giraffe, elephant and other bushy buddies at Green Animals Topiary Garden have made some new friends.

Floral offerings will include annuals, perennials, lilies, dahlia tubers, geranium standards and hanging flower baskets.

If you asked Dan Christina what his dream job would be when he was just a kid, hed tell you exactly what hes doing right now.

A Safari has landed in Melksham, with six green animals dotted around the town- but not everyone is happy about it.

It feels like summer, so, lets get out and have some fun eating and drinking. Here are five+ ways to have fun the weekend of May 20th

Several beach sites in Portsmouth already had signs labeling them as CRMC rights of way, but had not received that designation, others are trickier.

Reply The sale will run from May 10 through 16, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. (Courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County) PORTSMOUTH, RI — Its another sign of spring in Rhode Island: Portsmouths Green Animals Topiary Garden will again hold its annual plant sale. Unlike years past, this years event will last a whole week, rather than a single day. The sale will run from May 10 through 16, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. A variety of plants will be offered, including vegetables, specialty plants ...

Dan Christina manages the menagerie at Green Animals. Julie Zack Newport Life The old adage “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” is an unattainable dream for most people. To Dan Christina, chief horticulturist at Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth, it’s a reality.  “For a long time, I haven’t really thought of this as work,” he says. “I’m getting to create, I’m getting to cultivate a wide variety of plants and life. And that’s pretty excitin...

Rhode Island Rescues Photograph by Gavin Ashworth. All photographs courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island. The story of the Preservation Society begins with the mission to rescue Hunter House (Fig. 1) and the question put to financier George Henry Warren Jr. after its purchase by his wife, Katherine Warren: “Well, you’ve got this house, now what are you going to do with it?” In 1945, Newport stone carver John Howard Benson became alarmed that Hunter ...