The Providential Gardener

Do You Know Where the Gardens 'Used to Be'?

Find out where some of the farms and gardens used to be (and may still be!) in Providence, RI, at the new development website: www.wherethegardens.providentialgardener.com! The idea for this project came out of a planning meeting for Providence's 375th birthday... Read more →

Where the Gardens Used to Be ~ The Poor Farm (Neck Farm) at Dexter Field

ABOUT: Where the Gardens "Used to Be" is a new Providential Gardener project that will document where gardens, farms, and greenhouses have been, are, and might be in the future, within Providence, RI. While the dedicated website is under construction,... Read more →

Where the Gardens Used to Be ~ Gardening in Providence, RI

"Where the Gardens Used to Be" is a new Providential Gardener project that documents agriculture in the City of Providence, RI, from the earliest times to the present. Any garden, farm, or greenhouse that has been or currently exists in... Read more →

Smith's Castle Cutting Garden

Master Gardener, Cheryl Caldwell will give a free lecture on the Cutting Garden at Smith’s Castle on Saturday, July 14 at 10:00. For reservations call Smith’s Castle at 294-3521. Ms. Cadwell brings decades of “ down-in-the-dirt” experience to gardening. Her... Read more →

18th Century Rhode Island Gardening

These days you are likely to hear or read about sustainable living, sustainable landscapes, sustainable energy resources.... as though "sustainable" is new. But for most of humanity's time on this planet, sustainability was assumed: you simply would not survive if... Read more →

RI's Women Gardeners

"Rhode Island's Women Gardeners and the English Idyll" is the spring program in the Historic Knight Estate Education Series at CCRI in Warwick, Sunday, May 20, 2007, at 1:00pm. The event is free and open to the public. Lynn M.... Read more →

Restoring Historical Gardens

Monday night, the URI Master Gardeners heard a fascinating presentation by Lucinda Brockway of Past Designs on historical garden restoration. Take a look at a story about her work in the College of Environmental and Life Sciences newsletter by Rudi... Read more →

Public Gardens of Rhode Island

The 2006 list of Public Gardens in The Northeast, published each year by the magazine, People, Places, and Plants in the July/August issue, contains more than 30 Rhode Island gardens. The list is among the many terrific features of this... Read more →

17th-19th Century Gardens in Rhode Island

The Providential Gardener is compiling a list of gardens that are models of 17th through 19th century gardening practices and that have some documentation, either in a brochure available at the garden or on the web. Here are a few... Read more →