While on our way to the hotel for our trip to Newport, Rhode Island, Teague took me to visit Blithewold, a 45 room Summer "cottage" owned by the Van Wickle McKee family. The name Blithewold is Old English for Happy Wood. The mansion is filled with family heirlooms and is surrounded by 33 acres of gardens and woodland overlooking Narragansett Bay.
Instead of pictures from my garden, a few pictures from the gardens at Blithewood.
The backyard looking out at Narragansett Bay
Oakleaf Hydrangea
The well with Henry's cousin, Leo
Yellow Bamboo
How does your garden grow?
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Cool bamboo! :)
It was fun walking through the bamboo forest
Wonderful gardens. Fancy having to clean 45 rooms every day....Valerie
There was a picture of the household staff. It looked like there were 24 - 36 people that took care of the house and grounds.
Bamboo is a dirty word in my world. I bet that bamboo wasn't the spreading type.
I liked the iris and the lovely greenery. From your photos, it felt like a very calm place to visit.
I've been to the Breakers and at least one other mansion, but not Blithewood. It looks lovely, and I bet you had a great little roadtrip visit. Thanks for sharing these CJ. It's nice to see the sun on this dark dreary day.
Oh what fun. I love going through gardens and 'cottages':) So you did get to go to Newport?
Even if the bamboo is the spreading type, there's an army of gardeners to take care of it. Blithewood is a very beautiful setting and lives up to its name, Happy Wood
I visited Rosecliff just after Robert 😻Redford's movie, The Great Gatsby was released. Part of the movie was filmed at the mansion. We had a nice visit. Looking forward to another trip. Not sure if back to Newport or not. Sunshine predicted for the end of the week. Hang in there
We had the day at Blithewood and a quick visit to the beach. We stayed overnight, but had to return the following day.
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