Blooms & Beats: November
Enjoy fall in the Garden while listening to live music performances by talented local artists. Satisfy your taste buds with offerings from some of Fort Worth’s favorite food trucks, play...
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Blooms & Beats: October
Enjoy fall in the Garden while listening to live music performances by talented local artists. Satisfy your taste buds with offerings from some of Fort Worth’s favorite food trucks, play...
Blooms & Beats: September
Enjoy fall in the Garden while listening to live music performances by talented local artists. Satisfy your taste buds with offerings from some of Fort Worth’s favorite food trucks, play...
¡Celebramos! Quinceañera Runway Show
Experience the magic of a quinceañera at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden! Join us for a spectacular runway show featuring gorgeous quinceañera gowns, dazzling accessories, and the latest trends for...
Botanical Cyanotypes
After immersing yourself in the cyanotype process under the guidance of our expert instructor, you’ll find yourself looking at the natural world through a new lens. The beauty of this...
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Shop the Fall Plant Sale to Bring Fabulous Fall Color to Your Garden
Congratulations, Fort Worth! You’ve made it through another hot summer! Now we can begin to enjoy cooler weather—and beautiful fall-blooming plants. The first frost arrives in Tarrant County around Nov....
Attract Butterflies to Your Garden with Plants for Pollinators
Native butterflies love native plants such as black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta). Butterflies in the Garden is a magical experience, but discovering butterflies in your own backyard can be even more...
Bring on the Bees, Butterflies and Hummingbirds with these Plants for Pollinators
The Garden’s Pollinator Pathway is a-buzz this month with bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators busy collecting nectar from blooming plants. To enjoy this whirl of activity in your own...
Plan Now for Bountiful Bulbs Next Spring
A sigh of relief can be heard across North Texas that the heat wave has broken. We know to expect more hot days in September, but with Labor Day behind...
Look to Native Plants for a Drought-Tolerant, Ecosystem-Friendly Garden
Native plants, such as this Texas mountain laurel, are both beautiful and supportive of local wildlife. As FWBG | BRIT celebrates National Native Plant Month this April, we invite you...
Get Your Hands Dirty in a Garden to Boost Your Mental Health
One of the best thing about working outside in a garden is the visibility of the results. You can see your hard work pay off as flowers bloom. But there’s...
Honoring Black Botanists and Horticulturists
African Americans have shaped the landscape of the United States with their hands–revering land and resisting oppression through the development of innovative horticultural techniques and an unwavering commitment to lift...
Get to know the Garden’s new flagship Texas plants and the interns researching them
Every year, the research team adopts a few special plants as a focus for study and conservation, especially for the student interns who join the Garden every summer. This year, interns and their mentors are paying special attention to two plants, a wildflower native to Texas and a rare and remarkable native orchid, Meanwhile a third intern is investigating fungi growing in the Garden itself.
Megan O’Connell on Texas Prairie Ecosystems
As part of BRIT Library's Botany Stories series, BRIT's new Conservation Research Botanist, Megan O'Connell, discusses her interest in Texas prairie ecosystems and Texas Blackland Prairie.
A Day as a Botanical Illustrator
Article written by Isabella Wu, 2018 BRIT Herbarium and Research Intern and student at Emory University. Clear skies heralded a warm afternoon with no cover from the blazing sun. I...
Holiday Botany: Poinsettia
The poinsettia is a quintessential part of typical holiday decor. Its bright red, burgundy, or white foliage are common sights in locations both private and public throughout the winter months, from apartment balconies and church altars to bank lobbies and coffeehouses.
Generating field guides in Baja California, Part 1
This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank, a Biodiversity Explorer for BRIT. She is a field botanist who loves natural history, floristics, and...
