Fort Worth Botanic Garden

Fort Worth Botanic Garden The Fort Worth Botanic Garden and Botanical Research Institute of Texas is 120 acres in the heart of the cultural district.
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The Fort Worth Botanic Garden was established in 1934 and is the oldest major botanic garden in Texas. It contains a collection of more than 2,500 species of plants. Long celebrated for its beautiful tropical, rose, and Japanese gardens, the FWBG is composed of twenty-five specialty garden spaces, including a tropical conservatory, a public perennial trial garden, and naturalized areas and vistas.

May 29–30: The is bringing the American Begonia Society National Convention to FWBG this week, and you’re invited to sh...
05/29/2026

May 29–30: The is bringing the American Begonia Society National Convention to FWBG this week, and you’re invited to shop and explore unique begonias at their begonia plant sale and show. Free for anyone to attend 🌿

📆 Friday, May 29 | 9 AM–5 PM
📆 Saturday, May 30 | 9 AM–4 PM
📍 FWBG Main Garden Center Building

Check out stunning varieties and take home a new plant!

05/28/2026

This is how we grow it 🎶🌿

This shows just a few quick clips, but the full story is a year in the making. Long before a single plant goes in the ground, our horticulture team is studying last season’s beds, sketching color themes, and matching every cultivar to its bed’s light, water, and shade conditions.

When the 18-wheelers arrive, thousands of plants are unloaded by hand and the Garden transformation begins! plants are removed, beds tilled, soil amended, plants placed, mulched, and fed. New deliveries roll in every two weeks during color change 🌺

Give it about a month, and the bed reaches full maturity. Come see what’s growing next!

Step into the stillness of the Japanese Garden 🌿 May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we’re inviting you to slow do...
05/27/2026

Step into the stillness of the Japanese Garden 🌿
 
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we’re inviting you to slow down and experience the Japanese Garden with our brand new self-guided forest therapy audio walk, created for our Nature Rx wellness program 🎧

Wander past the koi ponds, pause beneath the Japanese maples, and let a calming guided experience deepen your time in one of the most peaceful corners of the Garden 🍃

Learn more and listen at fwbg.org/nature-rx

05/22/2026

The Garden just got a little wilder 🦊
Sean Kenney’s Nature POP! Made with LEGO® Bricks is now open, with more than 40 larger-than-life sculptures hidden along the pathways. Come find your favorite 🌿

📆 May 22 – Sept 7
🎟️ Free with Garden admission

🔗 fwbg.org/events/nature-pop

Notice something colorful in the parking lot? 🌵🌼 The prickly pear cacti tucked into the bio swales located throughout ou...
05/21/2026

Notice something colorful in the parking lot? 🌵🌼
 
The prickly pear cacti tucked into the bio swales located throughout our parking lot are currently in bloom!
 
Bio swales are vegetated channels that slow and filter stormwater before it reaches our waterways. We’ve planted ours with native, drought-tolerant species like the prickly pear to turn them into a restorative habitat for pollinators and other important critters 🌿

Something big is taking shape in the Garden 🦊Installation is officially underway for Sean Kenney’s Nature POP! Made with...
05/20/2026

Something big is taking shape in the Garden 🦊
Installation is officially underway for Sean Kenney’s Nature POP! Made with LEGO Bricks, and we’re getting our first look at the colorful creatures arriving on site 🌿
 
More than 40 sculptures, built from over 800,000 LEGO bricks, are being tucked throughout the Garden. A panther mid-stride, a fox on the prowl, a mama bear and her cub, and dozens more are waiting to be discovered beginning May 22.
 
📆 May 22 – Sept 7
🎟️ Free with Garden admission
 
🔗 fwbg.org/events/nature-pop
 

A little Garden history for you 🐘In 1931, the first phase of Rock Springs Park, which would later become the Fort Worth ...
05/14/2026

A little Garden history for you 🐘
In 1931, the first phase of Rock Springs Park, which would later become the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, was under construction. But the crew ran into a problem: the newly shaped Reflecting Pond at the bottom of the Rose Ramp simply would not hold water. City forester Raymond C. Morrison later recalled that workers “tried to make a pond where a spring had made a watering hole on a cattle trail, but it wouldn’t hold water.”

The solution was unexpectedly charming. Queen Tut, a beloved elephant from the was brought over to wallow in the pond. Her weight packed down the soil step by step and the water from the Rock Springs Area lagoons finally stayed!

Nearly a century later, you can still enjoy the waterfalls, spillways, and the calming Reflecting Pond that she helped make possible right here at FWBG 🌿

05/13/2026

Did you spot everything? 🌿🔎 FWBG is full of hidden beauty waiting for you to discover!

Honoring the women who shape our lives 💐This Mother’s Day, we’re reminded that the most meaningful celebrations happen w...
05/10/2026

Honoring the women who shape our lives 💐

This Mother’s Day, we’re reminded that the most meaningful celebrations happen when loved ones gather together surrounded by beauty.

From weddings and milestone birthdays to anniversary brunches, bridal showers, and baby showers, FWBG offers a special indoor or outdoor setting that turns any gathering into something truly special.

📆 Planning a celebration for the special woman in your life?
Contact our Rentals Team at 817-463-4150 or [email protected]

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Address

3220 Botanic Garden Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX
76107

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 6pm
Sunday 8am - 6pm

Telephone

(817) 392-5510

Website

https://mailchi.mp/fwbg/fwbg-sign-up

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