Garden Paths

Meandering paths will beckon you to the woodland and wildlife garden, alive with beautifully colored Monarch butterflies, or to the 16th century gazebo with a fantastic view of Roanoke Sound where you may gaze out across the waters which brought the first English colonists to this spot over 400 years ago.

The Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island are filled with pine strewn paths that carry one past formal gardens, up on the Great Mount, down through live oaks hundreds of years old with gnarled boughs green year-round.

A favorite of children, the ''Bashful Girl'' birdbath is in honor of youth gardeners of the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc. Colorful azaleas, tulips and pansies are framed by the ancient oaks.