A year in photos under Newport’s iconic tree canopy…
January - The first new growth on our Island Cemetery azalea cuttings growing in the heated glass house.
February - An unexpected topiary in a private garden, created with great love from an eastern arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) that tipped but continued to grow
March - Joe Verstandig checking in on our grafts in their humidity tent.
April - The stunning Higan type cherry at Newport Congregational Church on Spring street.
May - One last green Spring at the Heritage Tree Center at Roger’s Highschool, our nursery’s home from 2017 until summer of 2025.
June - Propagation success! Lovely roots growing from a Squarrosa Intermedia (Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Squarrosa Intermedia’) cutting taken in February.
July - Our hoop house builder extraordinaire Andrew Bray putting up the first pieces of the new tree house.
August - The new Heritage Tree Nursery’s namesake Minnie Cushing Coleman at the Evening of the Arboreta.
September - Stunning red new growth on a redbud (Cercis canadensis) grown from seed at our Heritage Tree Nursery.
October - Planting of the Morton Park sweetgum graft, replacing the mighty tree that fell last year with a clone grown by NTC.
November - Annual meeting and volunteer appreciation event at Rough Point, with Jon Deitz presenting a volunteer of the year award to Brendan Leary.
December - Joe Verstandig and Jon Deitz covering the new hoophouse at the Minnie Cushing Coleman Heritage Tree Nursery, just in time for winter.