Fort Worth Botanic Garden

Oh what a night! Perfect crisp but not cold to tour the night of lights at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens.It's a magical experience touring the exhibits with a spiked hot chocolate in hand.Every exhibit had its own Christmas song playing. Dancing water, sparkling lights and neon trees.There were bars and refreshment areas throughout the 1.4 mile tour.

I love living so close to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden! I come here all the time to enjoy the beautiful plants and unwind. I like to bring a book and find a shady bench to read on for a while. I have a membership and have already made good use of it. It costs $60 for an individual membership and includes reciprocal access to a ton of other gardens. The grounds are beautiful, but I love all of the programming they host. I have been able to take a few art tours and I love bringing my dog on Dog Days. Fort Worth is very lucky to have such a nice botanical garden!

Can't believe it took me this long to check out the Botanic Gardens. I highly recommend this place for a nice weekend adventure. Definitely visit this place during the spring time, when all the flowers are blooming and when the weather is perfect. I took my family who were visiting from out of state here, and we had a blast. We checked out the japanese garden and also the rose garden. Unfortunately we didn't think to buy fish food up at the front, as you can feed the large kois in the pond. The japanese gardens was very tranquil and beautifully maintained. The rose gardens were awesome as the roses were in full bloom!My favorite activity was the butterfly gardens. Never been inside a butterfly garden, and i'm definitely looking toward the next time i can check it out again. You can buy a combo for the garden and the butterfly exhibit to save a few bucks. The butterfly gardens was crowded, but if you take your time, you can see lots of different variety of butterflies. If you get lucky, you may have one land on you to get the perfect photo. On the weekend, i believe they have a small farmers markets out front to check out. They also sell lemonade and sangria for you to enjoy while walking around the gardens. Highly recommend this place.

Fort Worth Botanic Gardens is located obviously in The Heart of Fort Worth, Texas, delivering a stunning garden environment for garden enthusiasts and anyone who simply loves being in nature!We came through on a beautiful day during the week, hoping we could enjoy walking through the gardens and admiring all the lovely things the Botanic Gardens had to offer, and our wish came true! There is free ample parking provided in the lot, making it easy and enjoyable when visiting. Getting tickets is fairly easy as to where you can go online and purchase tickets, or you can purchase tickets at the kiosk provided when entering. The prices are fair and average, and they have regular admission, seniors, and child prices.We set off for adventure after purchasing our tickets and started our walking journey. There are plenty of benches throughout the Gardens to sit at if your legs get tired. After speaking to one of the friendly staff members, he stated the Gardens is roughly 100 acres but 50 acres in walkable spaces. There were plenty of flowers, trees, and plants to observe, and they were all very well nicely planted. The star of the show was the Japanese Gardens, where everything seemed nostalgic to me since living in Japan for quite some time. It almost felt I was back in the Land of the Rising sun. They even have a small gift shop inside where you can purchase items or buy food for the massive Koi fish in one of the many ponds they have.Overall, I had a great time here with gorgeous views and great exercise for my legs! They also had a huge greenhouse in the front, but it wasn't opened yet for the butterfly exhibit that would be starting soon. While we were there, the special exhibit was a dinosaur theme, which was quite nice looking at and walking through the park. Please check the website for times and updates for any additional changes throughout the season.

Nice botanical gardens. I especially like the Japanese Garden and noticed that it is actually handicapped accessible! I enjoyed my visit. Only wish it wasn't near the freeway. You can hear the hum of traffic and there were planes frequently overhead.

"Enjoy the captivating beauty of Fort Worth Botanic Garden (FWBG) and Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), one of the largest centers for botanical exploration and discovery in the United States. The new organization brings together BRIT's fundraising, education, and world-class research capabilities with the Garden's historically significant grounds, event facilities, and horticultural expertise. Together, FWBG will create one of the leading public gardens in America."The Garden has a very well designed and informative webpage, from which I copied the above clip. It is $14 admission charge for adults, $12 for seniors (65+). Google Maps took us to a private entrance, but large sizes directed us to enter through University Drive. When we came on a Tuesday morning, there was still plenty of free parking available, though it was pretty full by the time we left late morning. There is one entrance into the gardens via the visitor's center, and you can pay your admission via the ticket desk. There really wasn't much brochures to peruse; using your phone on their website is the best bet to get around.There were two temporary exhibits throughout the garden, both of which we loved very much. The first are twenty one life size Seward Johnson sculptures (May - September '24), placed strategically around the park. They truly are lifelike, requiring us to examine them. As expected in a park this well maintained, there were plenty of gardeners going through their workday...and yes, we mistook one of them who was taking a well deserved break, as a sculpture. I'm pretty sure this is intentional.The other exhibit is 'Dinosaurs around the World' (Jan - May '24). Not lifesize, but seemed realistic enough and was cool seeing them in an outdoor setting. Many of them were animated, including sound. In fact, when we were wandering the gardens, we initially thought we were near a zoo because of the noises coming throughout. Kids would love it.It definitely matters what time of the year you come. We had just missed the butterfly exhibit, and there really wasn't too many flowers blooming. But there was plenty of green, and a lot of places to explore. Plus it wasn't so hot or full of biting insects. There are plenty of places to fill up your water bottle.The one word to describe this place would be 'peaceful'. There are so many shaded benches where you could just sit and enjoy nature. The large Japanese gardens was a sight to behold, definitely providing a lot of running water, plenty of shaded trees, and nice views. And the very large pond had very large Koi, frogs, and even a family of ducks swimming around. Wish we had more time to just reflect...I really enjoy places like this.

Getting into this place was a tad confusing, as the northern entrance which is where I came from the various museums in the area seemed locked off (though on closer inspection it was not. The visitor center had a wait for tickets on a weekday, and they were a couple of dollars more expensive that what my initial internet search existed. However, I could see why people were lining up to pay it. I did not enter their seasonal butterfly exhibit, but I still found some butterflies and other interesting insects hovering around the gardens. There were some wild spaces, but overall these were quite considered and constructed spaces. In addition to the various plant life, a set of realistic-looking sculptures including some iconic art pieces, were sprinkled throughout the gardens as part of a temporary exhibition.Abundant drinking water stations were around, important in the Texas heat, and the place appeared to be selling plants to a large crowd of excited locals. There were plenty of reasons to stop by.

Beautiful way to spend your afternoon meandering in the warm outdoors. There are ponds and little waterfalls, and quite a few shady areas to rest in. Took us 1 hour and 45 minutes to walk the whole thing, and we stopped to take a lot of pictures! We walked 2.5 K

Fort Worth has one of the most beautiful gardens I've ever been to. I love coming here to get in a walk and see some sites. The Rose Garden is my personal favorite, but DO NOT MISS the Japanese Garden. You won't be disappointed!

Visited the botanical gardens on a Sunday. It wasn't too busy. Me and my fiancé got a chance to see most of the exhibits. My favorite was definitely the Japanese gardens. I was instantly in zen mode as soon as I entered the park. I would visit here again in the fall when it gets a bit cooler.