Habit photograph of common sow thistle, scientific name Sonchus platylepis, growing on the side of a rocky cliff. The plant is pictured in the foreground, and its flowers are yellow and its leaves serrated. Behind the plant to the right, there is a noticeable absence of light.

Photograph of the waterfall pool in the Fuller Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The small pool is lined with large brick-like stones from which flowers, vines, and mosses hang to. Lily pads, some flowering, float on the green water as a single small fish swims within. The pond is surrounded by tall, vibrant grasses and small green bushes.

Photograph of the waterfall pool in the Fuller Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The small pool is lined with large brick-like stones from which flowers, vines, and mosses hang to. Lily pads, some flowering, float on the water as a group of fish swims within. The pond is surrounded by tall, vibrant grasses and small green bushes.

Photograph of the Trial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The image contains multiple occupied flower beds surrounding the octagonal wooden gazebo at the center of the garden. The plants on display include shrubs with narrow leaves, white and yellow flowers, irises, and smaller faintly red flowers visible at left. The garden is surrounded by tall trees across the background.

Photograph of a harvest at the vegetable garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple people across the foreground and background, including several young children, are visible holding tools and vegetables as they work among the garden's raised planters. A young girl at center observes a leafy root vegetable in her hand; behind him, another boy places items into a canvas or plastic bag.

Photograph of the Republic of Texas Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple bushes of roses, arranged along the curves of dirt footpaths, are visible in the image in multiple colors, including scarlet, pink, bright red, and yellow. The rose gardens' colonnade, made of brick pillars and metal lattices, is visible across the background in front of dense foliage.

Photograph of a footpath in the Rock Springs area at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The footpaths are made of stone, and visible in the image are a set of stone stairs along the path. The entire footway is flanked by dense shrubs and bushes on both ends, and tree branches hang from from above.

Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Prominent at center is the "rose ramp", a wide set of triangular arrangements of red roses bordered with short hedges with a water stream running along concrete steps down the middle of the ramp and stairs along both sides of the flowers. Above the "rose ramp" are a set of stone stairs leading to a raised platform containing a wide pavilion occupied with several people with square, wooden colonnades on both ends of the structure, a tiled trapezoidal roof, and stone brick pillars. Below the "rose ramp" is a rectangular pond containing a water jet, and several polygonal beds of roses of various colors lined with hedges. Several white metal arches arranged alongside each other in squares sit on intersections of grass paths. This portion of the garden, also occupied by visitors observing, is bordered by latticed wooden fences placed on short brick walls, and lined with hedges and garden benches.

Photograph of patches of rose plants in the rose gardens at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The roses are identified as "Moncrief roses" and are located near short yellow shrubs and grasses under the shade of a large tree.

Photograph of excavation work in the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Inside the uncompleted frame, four workers with shovels dig an oval-shaped hole into the dry garden, exposing the dirt base below. Pickaxes, lumber, and a wheelbarrow are scattered around them.

Photograph of a bridge being built over an empty concrete stream at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The bridge, shaped like a rectangular "S" or a "Z", contains a wooden cast made for concrete with wire mesh inside the wooden enclosure. The bridge leads to a path on a small island, containing boulders and several shrubs.

Photograph of a crossing under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. It consists of two straight wooden trunks laid across a small dirt gully connected to concrete bases on both sides. A stone path is visible at bottom. Small trees are visible on both sides of the gully.

Photograph of a crossing under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. It consists of flat wooden planks laid over two straight wooden trunks laid across a small dirt trough connected to concrete footpaths on both sides, surrounded by barren dirt and small shrubs in the background.

Photograph of a crossing over a small dirt gully under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. A metal juncture connected between two round wooden tree trunks is emphasized in the image.

Photograph of Limonium macrophylllum (common name: sea lavender) growing along some rocks. The flower blossoms are lavender, and the stems are reddish-brown.

Close-up photograph of sea lavender flowers, scientific name Limonium macrophyllum, growing at the Jardín Canario de Viera y Clavijo, or the botanic garden located on Gran Canaria - one of the Canary Islands.

Photograph of one Darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae) crawling on a gray colored rock covered with lichen, grasses, and plants on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands.

Photograph of an small, unidentified fern with green and purplish fronds growing on volcanic rock in Tamadaba Natural Park in the Canary Islands.

Photograph of a group of Ophioglossum lusitanicum (Least adder's tongue) small ferns showing their characteristic two ellipse-shaped leaves and single stalk with frond-like tops.

Photograph of a group of Ophioglossum lusitanicum (Least adder's tongue) small ferns showing their characteristic two ellipse-shaped leaves and single stalk with frond-like tops.

Landscape photograph of ocean, mountain, and a partial view of Pinus canariensis (Canary Island pine) in the foreground. The summit view shows clouds and the coastline Tenerife Island and the peak of Mount Teide across the ocean on the horizon.

Photograph of Pterocephalus dumetorum stems with some yellow flowers in bloom, one bud, and one withered example is shown.

Photograph of Descurainia preauxiana on a dry exposed cliff face. The plant has thin stems with no flowers and woody branches at the base with linear-shaped green leaves.

Photograph of Limonium with folded green leaves and a single stalk with small purple colored flowers clustered at the top. The base, growing on dry, rocky soil, has clumps of older, withered leaf stems.