Local garden club visits Windrush Gardens

Members of the Pelican Point-Greens Garden Club recently enjoyed a beautiful spring afternoon visiting Windrush Gardens in Baton Rouge. Windrush, designed by Ollie Steele Burden who donated the land to LSU, is now part of the Burden Museum and Gardens, along with the LSU Rural Life Museum and LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens. The semiformal garden features flowering shrubs and trees native to Louisiana, but also uses form and texture of plants to create a lush landscape. Mature oaks, pines and magnolias tower over the gardens, increasing the sense of enclosure and tranquility.