The Glen Burnie Gardens on the outskirts of Winchester, Virginia is also home to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley or officially actually the other way around but our primary interest was the gardens rather than the museum shown below.
The garden is organized around the Glen Burnie house here with what is really the back door being used as the entrance for tours.
I am not sure how to organize things since I basically wandered all over back and forth until I almost got lost. One of my favorites is the Asian Garden with this overlook from the tea house leading down to the traditional bridge and a locked gate that was actually an exit from the garden.
I think the small tree shaded channel was part of the adjacent water garden while the larger stream shows the Glen Burnie House in the background and the ducks are safely on the far side out of the normal pedestrian traffic. From what I can tell the main stream is natural supplemented by some recirculation to avoid stagnation.
To the left of the main stream the lawn was filled with little white dots that were these mushrooms or toad stools that are not much bigger than a quarter.
Back over near the house in the formal gardens are these sculptures. I know the sculpture of Mercury is standing upright which can be verified on their website picture of the garden. I am still trying to figure out how I got the background tilted.
Sorting through my pictures of the flowers in the garden I was amazed that most were variations of pink. I am not sure what the purple ground cover/weed was other than breaking the pattern.
Normally in the roses I expect to find mostly reds with some white and yellow but not pink shades.
There are a number of views that appear tailor made for wedding photographs for which the garden is very popular. Lori really likes the ornamental iron work and I have included a photograph of the pasture behind the gate although from a different angle showing the common rocky fields across from the garden and a good example of the basic starting point for the garden.
Here is the Pink Pavilion which again is a very popular wedding location and of course another pink flower.
Finally finishing up are some photographs just because I liked them. Old trees get shelf fungus. Got rocks, make a waterfall. And out by the Pink Pavilion nature again proves it always wins.