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[Sculpture Symposium, Alice Bateman]
Photograph of a sculpture symposium at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Depicted is an abstract limestone sculpture situated atop a square limestone slab, all located under a makeshift canopy. A pair of lawn chairs are visible on the right side of the image, one holding a fan. Differently-sized blocks of limestone are scattered on the grass outside of the canopy.
Date:
199X
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Spring" Statue, Four Seasons Garden]
Photograph of a statue titled "Spring" in the Four Seasons Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The statue depicts a young girl looking at a nest of baby birds that she holds with her right arm.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Garden Center Naiad Statues, Winter]
Photograph of two frost-covered statues of women in front of the Garden Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The first is one of a barefoot woman with tied-back hair sitting on a stone boulder with a raised leg, glancing downwards. The second is that of a woman in a dress lifting her body and extending her right hand upwards. Both statues are situated among frost-covered dirt, the Garden Center prominent at right.
Date:
[1990..]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lion's Head Fountain]
Photograph of a lion's head fountain at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The lion's head, made of stone, shoots a water jet from its mouth, and is situated at the top of a stone arch. Under the arch is a stone niche and the fountain's pool, which is not visible.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragrance Garden Gate]
Photograph of the Fragrance Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Prominently visible on the left is a brick structure with a tiled roof and a large glass window under which sits a small statue of a female figure. Adjacent to the brick building is a mint-colored barrier made of latticed metal rods that leads up to a tall, arched gate. Across the building sits a tiled stone footpath and several elevated planting beds containing small plants and bushes. A greenhouse is visible in the background behind the latticed barrier.
Date:
198X
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragrance Garden Planters #1]
Photograph of the Fragrance Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Four elevated planters made of yellow tiles sit in pairs on opposite ends with two long rectangular flower beds in between, and are occupied by short bushes and shrubs between tiled stone brick footpaths. A large semicircular fountain, also elevated, is visible on the right at the end of the flower beds, with small bushes of flowers along the fountain's curve. The garden is bordered by a short brick wall with flourished bud-like caps on each corner, as well as by an adjoining tall wooden fence. Trees are scattered across the background.
Date:
[..1991-06]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragrance Garden, October 1991]
Photograph of the Fragrance Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Four elevated planters made of yellow tiles sit in pairs on opposite ends with two long rectangular flower beds in between, and are occupied by short bushes and shrubs between tiled stone brick footpaths. A large semicircular fountain, also elevated, is visible on the left at the end of the flower beds, with small bushes of flowers along the fountain's curve. The garden is bordered by a short brick wall with flourished bud-like caps on each corner. Trees are scattered across the background.
Date:
October 14, 1991
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragrance Garden Planters #2]
Photograph of the Fragrance Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Four elevated planters made of yellow tiles sit in pairs on opposite ends with two long rectangular flower beds in between, and are occupied by short bushes and shrubs between tiled stone brick footpaths. A large semicircular fountain, also elevated, is visible on the right at the end of the flower beds, with small bushes of flowers along the fountain's curve. The garden is bordered by a short brick wall with flourished bud-like caps on each corner, as well as by an adjoining tall wooden fence. Trees are scattered across the background.
Date:
August 1992
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragrance Garden]
Photograph of the Fragrance Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Four elevated planters made of yellow tiles sit in pairs on opposite ends with two long rectangular flower beds in between, and are occupied by short bushes and shrubs between tiled stone brick footpaths. A large semicircular fountain, also elevated, is visible on the left at the end of the flower beds, with small bushes of flowers along the fountain's curve. The garden is bordered by a short brick wall with flourished bud-like caps on each corner, as well as by an adjoining tall wooden fence. Trees and bushes are scattered across the background.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fragrance Garden Concrete Cast]
Photograph of a concrete cast in the Fragrance Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The cast sits on a column along one of the corners of the brick wall adjoining the Fragrance Garden, and is bulb-shaped. Leaves and branches are carved all along the bulb's surface, and a small squirrel scampering along a tree branch is sculptured near the base of the cast.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Trial Garden Gazebo]
Photograph of the gazebo in the Trial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gazebo, octagonal in shape and built with wooden pillars and wooden roof tiles, is surrounded by bushes of bright multi-colored flowers, and contains benches and tall fences inside. The background contains dense trees laying behind the gazebo.
Date:
[..1989-05]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Trial Garden Planting Beds]
Photograph of the Trial Garden's entry sign at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The entry sign, reading "Trial Garden" with a plant symbol on its left, sits on a rectangular bed of purple bluemink flowers. Tiled stone paths are visible around and along the various flower beds in the garden, some elevated and contained by walls made of wooden planks. Behind one planting bed, which contains only uneven mounds of soil, stands a man identified as a master gardener, who holds a tool in his right hand.
Date:
[..1991-06]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Trial Garden Gazebo and Planting Beds]
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.
Date:
May 1993
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Imagination Vegetable Garden Harvest]
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.
Date:
May 18, 1993
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Arid and Wildflower Garden]
Photograph of the arid and wildflower garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Depicted is a small opening among a background of dense trees where tall grasses, shrubs, and some cacti are grown. A small family of four in the background walks along the field, observing their surroundings.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cactus Garden Entrance #1]
Photograph of the Cactus Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A large prominent entry sign is located along the curb of the garden's parking lot. It reads "Cactus Garden", and on an adjoining plaque, it adds "Cactus were donated and are maintained by the Fort Worth Cactus & Succulent Society." Behind the sign are several shrubs, bushes, and the cacti, of which there are multiple types. A small greenhouse with several vases of plants and cacti inside is visible on the right side of the image.
Date:
[..1995-06]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cactus Garden]
Photograph of the Cactus Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Several types of cacti are visible across a flat mound of dirt, including tall columnar cacti, barrel cacti, and prickly pear cacti. In the foreground are several tall shrubs, including a tall yucca plant at right. More foliage is present in the background along the footpath behind the cacti displays. A small greenhouse is partially visible at right.
Date:
April 1997
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cactus Garden Entrance #2]
Photograph of the Cactus Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A large prominent entry sign is located along the curb of the garden's parking lot. It reads "Cactus Garden", and on an adjoining plaque, it adds "Cactus were donated and are maintained by the Fort Worth Cactus & Succulent Society." Behind the sign and along the curb are several shrubs, bushes, and the cacti, of which there are multiple types. A small greenhouse with several vases of plants and cacti inside is visible on the right side of the image.
Date:
[..1997-05]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Republic of Texas Rose Garden Trellis]
Photograph of a wooden trellis in the Republic of Texas Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Along the trellis, which sits over a dirt path littered with flower petals, are several large bushes with small purple and pink flowers. Other bushes sit in the path behind the trellis, as well as trees.
Date:
[..1993-05]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Republic of Texas Rose Garden]
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.
Date:
May 1995
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oval Rose Garden Pavilion #1]
Photograph of the pavilion in the Oval Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The pavilion, sitting at the center of the garden among numerous patches of rose shrubs, is made of tall brick pillars, diagonal wooden lattices between openings into the pavilion, wooden trimming, and a tiled pyramidal roof. The rose shrubs are varied in color, ranging from orange, pink, and white. Foliage is visible across the background of the image.
Date:
[..1995-05]
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Perennial Garden Rocks]
Photograph of a rock wall in the Perennial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Large flat boulders are visible along the edge of a pool, stacked upwards to the elevated footpath that surrounds the garden's waterfall, not visible in this image. A metal guardrail sits at the top, as well as shrubs and trees behind.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Perennial Garden Stream]
Photograph of a stream in the Perennial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The stream, surrounded by bushes, mosses, and shrubs, comes down from the background along rocks and boulders into a shrort cascade and a small pond at the forefront of the image, where koi fish are swimming.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Autumn" Statue, Four Seasons Garden]
Photograph of a statue titled "Autumn" in the Four Seasons Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Taken in front of a field of flowers, the statue depicts a young girl with a headdress observing a large butterfly sitting on her left hand.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History