![Welcome to Manteo sign](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9544.jpg) |
![The Elizabethan Gardens sign](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9547.jpg) |
![face covering sign](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9548.jpg) |
![mobile audio tour sign](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9549.jpg) |
The Elizabethan Gardens encompasses 10 acres of botanical and sculptural delights |
![Lee Duquette enters The Elizabethan Gardens](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9550.jpg) |
![The Elizabethan Gardens](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9633.jpg) |
Below: A monumental bronze sculpture of Queen Elizabeth I, ancient Italian Renaissance statuary, |
![Queen Elizabeth statue sign](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9563.jpg) |
![Queen Elizabeth statue](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9558.jpg) |
![Queen Elizabeth statue information](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9564.jpg) |
![Virginia Dare Statue sign](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9576.jpg) |
![Virginia Dare Statue](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9577.jpg) |
Below: The two RV Gypsies were fascinated by the crooked trees and shapes in the gardens. |
![crooked tree](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9578.jpg) |
![crooked tree](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9579.jpg) |
![crooked tree](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9580.jpg) |
![mutilple twines in the tree](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9582.jpg) |
![tree](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9594.jpg) |
Below: This area was roped off, and the two RV Gypsies are not sure of its significance. |
![roped off area](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9601.jpg) |
![remnants of a monument](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9585.jpg) |
![water trees](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9586.jpg) |
![history](../images/history.gif) ,\ |
Below:In 1953 The Elizabethan Gardens received several museum-quality Italian statues including a fountain with a pool, wellhead, sundial, birdbaths, stone steps and benches. They were a gift from the Whitney family estate. Gilded-age socialite and famed architectural designer Stanford White imported the items from Pompeii in 1906 for the family as a showcase for their Greenwood Estate in Thomasville Georgia.
The bowl and pedestal Aphrodite Fountain with column balustrade and accompanying statues of Roman gods are now showpieces of the Elizabethan-inspired sunken garden in Manteo where millions have enjoyed them for over 60 years. |
![Aphrodite Fountain](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9588.jpg) |
![statue of a Roman god](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9595.jpg) |
![statue of a Roman god](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9596.jpg) |
![walkway at Elizabethan Gardens](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9600.jpg) |
![fountain at Elizabethan Gardens](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9611.jpg) |
Suddenly, Lee Duquette told Karen Duquette
to "STOP QUICKLY". and she did just as a snake passed their
path. - They did not see any of the birds shown in the signs below.
No, Karen does not like to photograph snakes nor put them on this website. |
![sign about a Purple Martin bird](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9587.jpg) |
![sign about Carolina Wren](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9566.jpg) |
Below: The Butterfly Center - Although no butterflies were seen on this date by The Two RV Gypsies, they always find informative signs interesting and worthy of their website. |
![The John White Butterfly Center sign](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9610.jpg) |
![sign about most common butterflies](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9612.jpg) |
![sign about Plants for Butterflies](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9613.jpg) |
![sculpture](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9634.jpg) |
![sculpture](2020-06-24-gardens/_DSC9635.jpg) |