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[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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Birth of Love" Sculpture]
Photograph of "Birth of Love", a bronze sculpture by Michael Pavlovsky at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The piece consists of a bronze ring sitting on a trapezoidal base with two figures, one male and the other female, carved into the left and right side of the ring, respectively. The figures outstretch their arms to a pair of doves above them and are surrounded by flourishes depicting flowers, shells, branches, and leaves. The sculpture is located atop a concrete base in an open field of grass, a tree visible in the right background.
Date:
[2001..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Garden Center Naiad Statues #1]
Photograph of two 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 patches of yellow flowers and grasses, and sit in front of the Garden Center building, which is prominent in the background.
Date:
1990
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Bull" Sculpture]
Photograph of "Bull", a sculpture by Chris Powell at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The piece sits on two concrete slabs and consists of a half-ovoid, egg-shaped structure with a small rectangular opening centered below and a prominent circular ridge emerging from the top of the sculpture. The piece is located among trees and grasses.
Date:
[1990..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sculpture Symposium, Cameron Schoepp]
Photograph of a sculpture symposium at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Depicted is an artist, working from under a makeshift canopy, using a grinder on an abstract limestone sculpture. He is surrounded by other limestone pieces, such as a cut-out circle with a hole in its center, a trapezoid-like arched pyramid, and several copies of bullet-like domes in another corner of the tent.
Date:
199X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Bench" Sculpture]
Photograph of "Bench", a limestone sculpture by Cameron Schoepp in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The piece, sitting on a concrete slab in a grass field, consists of an uneven, rectangular limestone slab suspended by pillars with ends shaped like bullets that penetrate through the slab and jut out above.
Date:
1999
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Celestial Jazz" Sculpture Installation]
Photograph of "Celestial Jazz" being installed near the Garden Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The sculpture consists of a limestone star-like polygon with a spiral inscribed within sitting on a trapezoidal pillar and a base etched with abstract images. Workers hold the edges of the limestone star to situate the piece on a concrete base as straps from above hold the piece. Other workers stand nearby.
Date:
1999
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Garden Center Frog Sculptures]
Photograph of frog sculptures, titled "Silent Ballet", in front of the Garden Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Statues of two frog statues sit on opposing ends of a reflecting pool that contain small water jets on each side. The frog closest to the foreground is visible from behind, lifting his right hind leg and extending his arms, while his counterpart on the other end is obscured by jet streams. The reflecting pool is lined by concrete tiles and trimmed lawn grass, with trees lined on both ends.
Date:
November 1998
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Leonard Courtyard Special Event]
Photograph of a gathering in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The courtyard is filled with round tables with pink fabric tablecloths, decorative flower pots, and adjoining white chairs, some occupied by people. Other individuals are standing up or walking in between the tables. An elevated concrete flower bed with purple, pink, and white flowers is visible in the foreground, while the Garden Center and its veranda are in the background.
Date:
June 1993
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fuller Garden Gazebo with Floral Arch]
Photograph of a gazebo at the Fuller Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gazebo sits prominently in the background behind a large, metal floral arch that contains pink flower beds and dense vining leaves. The flower arch sits elevated on a wall of stone bricks, under which there is a bed of shrubs and plants bordered by a shorter stone brick wall and a stone footpath. Shrubs and short trees flank the gazebo.
Date:
June 1993
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fuller Garden Waterfall Pool #1]
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.
Date:
May 1995
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History