Garden Highlights
You could say that our entire forty-acre property is like one big garden, but horticulture really reigns supreme in our Harvest and Healing Gardens. In addition to keeping the ornamental plants flourishing all over the Castle Hill landscape, Leita remains at the helm of the Castle Hill Garden program, after five years as our chief horticulturist. She is now aided by a new member of the team, who began at Castle Hill this spring, her assistant Maddie.
Summer in full bloom
I recently spent a glorious harvest day with them to showcase the veggies, flowers and fruits of their labours. The Harvest Garden was at full production level and luckily the day was not too hot or humid – somewhat of a rare occurrence this summer, but we are not complaining! We know that the heat does not stifle nearly as much in Newport, especially out at Castle Hill, with the cooling waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Narragansett Bay lapping at our shores. It must be all that sea air that keeps the verdure in Newport looking ever so lush. Even through this summer’s drought!
The Harvest Garden at Castle Hill has taken shape over the last several years. Our newest garden, now transformed into a Healing Garden, was merely a patch of grass down by our beach house rooms just a few years ago, now it sports a variety of restorative and medicinal plants.
