Unplug and Unwind or Engage and Enjoy this Fall in the Garden

Research Team

BRIT Research

BRIT researchers strengthen bonds with wider scientific community

BRIT scientists have non-stop schedules. But no matter how busy they get, botanists never forget they are part of an international community of scientists.

Elizabeth Lunday December 9, 2024

Garden

First Peoples’ Garden features the plants and growing techniques of America’s original gardeners

Wander through a quiet area of the Garden campus near the southeast corner of the BRIT building and you’ll find a special place dedicated to celebrating the people who first gardened this area: the First Peoples’ Garden. This garden features plants grown or used by indigenous Americans for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. “It’s a good place to see the plants that people used everyday to sustain their lives,” says Horticulturist Fernando Figueroa, who is responsible for the garden.

BRIT Staff November 20, 2024

90th Anniversary

Glimpse the Garden’s history through BRIT Herbarium specimens

Today, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) are a single organization, but that is a recent development. BRIT and the Garden combined forced in October 2020 after many decades of independent operation. However, the Garden and BRIT worked together for years before the merger. One aspect of that long-term partnership is preserved in specimens in the BRIT Herbarium that were collected in the Garden.

BRIT Staff November 7, 2024

Red and orange heads on black stalks of slime mold Comatricha nigra

Botany Stories

The mysteries of Myxomycetes: Six scintillating facts about slime molds

Don’t ever believe you’ve got nature figured out. Case in point: Myxomycetes or plasmodial slime molds. Here are six fascinating facts from a recent article by BRIT Research Associate Harold Keller that will make you question what you think you know about life on this planet.

BRIT Staff October 31, 2024

Engage

Donor Spotlight: Laura and Greg Bird

Days of nature-filled, playful childhoods, common when Laura and Greg Bird were children, are what the Birds dream the new Baker Martin Family Garden will offer. The Birds serve as co-chairs of the Family Garden Campaign and have contributed a leadership gift through the Bird Family Foundation.

BRIT Staff October 28, 2024

Engage

Donor Spotlight: Nancy Hallman

Nancy Hallman’s connection to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden is inextricably linked with memories of visiting there with her children and, later, grandchildren.

BRIT Staff October 9, 2024