The Newport Arboretum seeks to create a citywide arboretum with collections unparalleled in scope and depth—and to do so by designing and implementing sustainable processes that may one day be modeled by communities across the globe.The heart of our mission lies in heritage horticulture, the celebration of our city’s long history of exploratory arboriculture and its remaining core of historic designed landscapes and plant collections. From handwritten records of expansive colonial-era hothouses that held specimens from all over the globe, to the scores of Gilded Age landscapes still in cultivation on our island today, Newport is a truly a jewel of American horticulture and landscape architecture. Our goal is to remember and reignite our once burning passion for sylviculture....and to radically expand tree canopy coverage along city streets and open spaces by engaging  record numbers of citizens in planting a diversity of species never before seen outside of established arboreta.