Elizabethan Gardens

located on route 64 in Manteo, NC

Pre-Visit:

• The site of the lost colony was honored by the creation of the Elizabethan gardens, next to the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
• The idea for this garden originated in 1950 when Mrs. Charles Cannon (wife of well known philanthropist from North Carolina), Mrs. Inglis Fletcher and Sir Evelyn (founder of the English speaking Union) and Lady Wrench were visiting the site of the Lost Colony.
• The gardens were to be an imaginative concept of an Elizabethan pleasure garden, Elizabethan in style and spirit but adapted to the present.

During Visit:

•  1 Entrance & Great Gate
    2 Gatehouse
    3 Meeting & Reception Hall
    4 The Courtyard and Shakespearean Herb Garden
    5 Rhododendron Walk
    6 Fragrance Walk
    7 Queen’s Tea Garden
    8 HRH Queen Elizabeth I statue
    9 The Mount and Well Head
  10 Virginia Dare Statue
  11 The Sunken Garden
  12 Overlook Terrace
  13 Walk to Water Gate
  14 The Thatched Roof Gazebo
  15 Hornbeam Walk
  16 Woodland & Wildlife/Children's Garden
  17 Great Lawn
  18 The Camellia Collection
  19 Ancient Live Oak

Plant List:

• Boxwoods 
• Tulips
• Pollarded crape myrtles
• holly
• various herbs
• narcissus
• bald cypress
• azalea
• rhododendron
• live oak
• rose
• ivy
• camellia
• liriope
• hosta
• palmetto
• ferns

Circulation:  brick, stone, mulch, sand
Essence:  modern garden with elizabethan feel


Post Visit:

• could hear the ocean throughout the garden it was magical
• Open lawn space was beautiful
• garden drifts off to the ocean 
•  layout is simple yet elegant