Restaurant Renovation Underway

Flora House Dining & Catering

While the Flora House restaurant is under renovation, you can still grab a bite from the on-site Flora House Coffee Cart or Food Truck during your visit — and Flora House’s full catering menu is already available for your next event or celebration.

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Open to Members first this fall, 2026

Baker Martin Family Garden

The Baker Martin Family Garden is Fort Worth’s newest place for families to explore, play, and discover the outdoors together. FWBG members are the first to experience it, with early access beginning this fall. The Garden opens to the public in March 2027.

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Events

BLOOM Teacher Professional Development

Discover hands-on ways to bring nature into your classroom and strategies for taking students outdoors with BLOOM (Brilliant Learning with Outdoor Opportunities and Motivation). This 3 CPE credit professional development...

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Blooms & Beats: November

Enjoy fall in the Horseshoe Garden while listening to live music performances by talented local artists. Satisfy your taste buds with offerings from Flora House Cafe, play fun yard games, and...

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Blooms & Beats: October

Enjoy fall in the Horseshoe Garden while listening to live music performances by talented local artists. Satisfy your taste buds with offerings from Flora House Cafe, play fun yard games, and...

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Blooms & Beats: September

Enjoy fall in the Horseshoe Garden while listening to live music performances by talented local artists. Satisfy your taste buds with offerings from Flora House Cafe, play fun yard games, and...

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Girls Nature Workshop: Beyond the Bouquet

Register here Together in partnership, the Fort Worth Garden Club (FWGC) and FWBG present the Girls Nature Workshops series! These hands-on programs connect girls and their families to the fascinating...

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Gardens

Adelaide Polk Fuller Garden

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Rainforest Conservatory

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Begonia Species Bank and Hybrid Collection

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Orchid Collection

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Cactus Garden

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In-Bloom

Backyard Vegetable Garden

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Perennial Garden

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Four Seasons Garden

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Trial Garden

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Blog Posts

Fort Worth Botanic Garden Earns the Nation’s Highest Museum Honor

Fort Worth Botanic Garden (FWBG) has officially earned accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the highest national honor a museum can receive. Accreditation from AAM places FWBG among an elite group of institutions nationwide. Of the nation’s estimated...

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BRIT scientists work in the field and in the lab to uncover the mysteries of the tiny but mighty dwarf pipewort

In the field and in the lab, BRIT researchers are uncovering the secrets of a very small but very special plant: Eriocaulon koernickianum, or dwarf pipewort. “It’s a tiny little...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Gardening Resources

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...

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Gardening Resources

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...

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Gardening Resources

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...

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Gardening Resources

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...

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Learn & Discover

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.

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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.

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Science & Conservation

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...

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Science & Conservation

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.

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Science & Conservation

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...

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Science & Conservation

Outdoor Exhibit: Enchanted Garden

Flora House Dining & Catering

Baker Martin Family Garden

Drawing in the Garden

Search Results for: What's in Bloom

Events

BLOOM Teacher Professional Development

Blooms & Beats: November

Blooms & Beats: October

Blooms & Beats: September

Girls Nature Workshop: Beyond the Bouquet

Gardens

Adelaide Polk Fuller Garden

Rainforest Conservatory

Begonia Species Bank and Hybrid Collection

Orchid Collection

Cactus Garden

Backyard Vegetable Garden

Perennial Garden

Four Seasons Garden

Trial Garden

Blog Posts

Fort Worth Botanic Garden Earns the Nation’s Highest Museum Honor

BRIT scientists work in the field and in the lab to uncover the mysteries of the tiny but mighty dwarf pipewort

Shop the Fall Plant Sale to Bring Fabulous Fall Color to Your Garden

Attract Butterflies to Your Garden with Plants for Pollinators

Bring on the Bees, Butterflies and Hummingbirds with these Plants for Pollinators

Plan Now for Bountiful Bulbs Next Spring

Look to Native Plants for a Drought-Tolerant, Ecosystem-Friendly Garden

Get Your Hands Dirty in a Garden to Boost Your Mental Health

Honoring Black Botanists and Horticulturists

Get to know the Garden’s new flagship Texas plants and the interns researching them

Megan O’Connell on Texas Prairie Ecosystems

A Day as a Botanical Illustrator

Holiday Botany: Poinsettia

Generating field guides in Baja California, Part 1

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