Fort Worth Botanic Garden

Cute place and nice quiet place to walk around and get away from the bustle of DFW. They do a great job with all of the plants especially when you take into consideration the Texas summer and the fact that we can get the occasional hard freezes in the winter. Just a really pretty place to spend an afternoon or even just an hour or so if you are in the area.

I love the Japanese Garden area. We recently did a wedding for a very small and intimate group of 8 and the gardens accommodated us by offering a small enough area to hold the ceremony and then we walked the gardens for photos with so much natural beauty, very little is needed in the way of decorations for your event here.

I’ve taken my senior pictures here and so has my sister. It’s so beautiful in the spring summer and fall! It’s also a good place to just go to walk around and enjoy natures beauty. Nice café to eat! And sometimes central market will have concerts in the garden where you can have a picnic there and enjoy the music

Beautiful place! It was my first time in fortworth and we went there and was amazed! The whole park was pretty! But you would need more than 1 hour to spend there. We only got a chance to see 2 gardens but yet it was beautiful and so worth the $ 4.

Ft Worth located and very nice garden. Free for the public to visit. Plenty to look at and great opportunity to do picture taking.

One of my favorite spots to walk and relax in Fort Worth, I come quite often they are doing new construction to make it even more peaceful, it broke my heart to see the Oval Rose Garden has a viral infection pretty much knocking the rise down for this season hopefully they will get this treated and corrected soon

A treat of nature. I found it awesome that you can feed the turtles. So many places to connect and refresh revive in a beautiful garden escape.

My favorite place to go in Fort Worth! Perfects for picnics or just to sit quietly! I recommend going on the weekdays and you can’t beat the free admission and free parking!

Beautiful nature? Check. Walking paths galore? Check. Free? Check.
There are some interactive/​educational areas, for the kids, and kids at heart.
Wow, I just visited this place for the first time a few weekends ago. Okay, so the summer might not be the best time to visit if you’re planning to make a day of it, as a few members of our party (me) felt like they might tap out after a few hours in the 100 degree heat. Even so, this place just makes my heart happy.
Even after a few hours, we didn’t see all this place has to offer, but did get to check out the Japanese Garden, which requires a $ 5 fee to enter.
Beautiful flowers, trees, plants blanket most of the area, though on our most recent visit, the rose garden was not it its fully glory due to a virus. Looking forward to its full recovery.
There is just something so calming and centering about being in a place like this if your day to day is filled with buildings and cars as mine is. Definitely recommended. Grateful to have a place like this to enjoy.
Great place to get some photos, relax on a park bench, take a stroll, or do various other things most of us don’t take the time to anymore. Go! Check it out!

It’s a cute place for a pick nick, date or photo shoot.
Just please remember it’s Texas and while the flowers might look at its best on summer, the Texas heat will kill you!
Their’s a lot of nice hidden gems. You’ll have to walk around and explore. The Japanese Garden is also great, they also have restrooms.

Beautiful sights and scenery! Great for taking pictures. We walked around for a couple of hours. Unlike other botanic gardens, this one is free… no charge to enter. It’s a clean garden with plenty to see. I look forward to taking it all in again during my next visit to Ft. Worth. There is a section where a fee is required to enter. However, the area we visited was plenty and fulfilled our expectation. I’ll be back!

Wow, what gorgeous grounds. Plenty to see, lots to learn, various events throughout the year. And admission is free! Located near the zoo, the botanic gardens are a large, lush area full of flowers, plants, and other vegetation indigenous to the Texas area. On a good weather day, you can spend hours walking the trails, taking photo ops, and just taking in everything. When we visited on a beautiful Saturday we must have come across two or three weddings– obviously popular during the season.
There are indoor areas to cool down in the humid summers, and plenty of spots to sit and rest under shade trees/​areas. Take your time, enjoy the scenery. There are kid-​friendly spots to stop and learn about animal tracks, botanics, and other fun things. It’s all very interactive and flows very well. There’s an area dedicated to roses and, when they’re all in bloom, just wow! There is a Japanese botanic garden area that has a small entrance fee– but we weren’t able to visit (I bet it’s pretty great). The parking was free, and there’s enough spaces all over the property you shouldn’t have a problem finding a spot.

I love when cities offer free attractions. This place isn’t as heavily landscaped as the Dallas arboretum, much of the grounds were built around preexisting wooded areas. I really like that for the variety factor — part garden, part nature hike. There’s a separate tropical greenhouse and Japanese garden too, which you pay a small (but worthy) fee to visit.
This is a great place to relax. Or get some exercise.

Much smaller than the Dallas Arboretum, but it is free (including parking) unless you want to see the Japanese Garden. You get what you pay for… sometimes seeing pretty rough flowers and plants.

I take pictures for fun but have a serious looking camera (Nikon D800). I was there with my sister and was taking pictures outside and around the parking area (we re not ready to go inside yet) when an attendant approached us and stopped us from taking any more pictures When asked why? She told me «you brought a tripod (it was a monopod) and you have an expensive camera, therefore you have to go to the office and pay professional fees.» When asked what rule is this? She rudely told me to go and deal with the front office.
This is ridiculous when I donot even earn a cent with my photography and expected to pay a huge «tax» for it simply because I «look pro». So frustrated I went to Dallas Arboretum instead to take pictures. I vowed not to ever comeback to this money making place.

A real gem! The gardens are free (except for the Japanese Gardens, which is a small fee). I love coming here to picnic with my fiancé. The gardens are beautiful, people often do wedding or quincenera photos here.
It’s worth a visit!

My very sweet boyfriend planned a beautiful picnic at the botanical gardens last saturday. The weather was absolutely gorgeous!
Here are a few tips you should know bf going to the gardens…
The greenhouse in the main center will cost you $ 3 dollars. I feel it was worth the money! So many plants I have never seen before, truly breathe taking!
On to the Japanese garden. His plan was to have our picnic there… Well you can’t bring wine into the garden. Fail. So we took the wine back to the car. No biggie! As we walked around the landscape is so beautiful and very romantic! Downside, there is NO WHERE to have a picnic in the Japanese garden. You have to stay on the paths.
We changed our plans once we got done at the Japanese garden. Got our wine out of our car and headed to the rose garden!
Honestly i’m really glad how everything happened bc the rose garden was way more romantic!!! Great picnic date place for sure and can’t wait til the spring to do it again!!!

I’ve been going here since I was a kid and I’m always amazed at how beautiful and tranquil this place is. It really doesn’t matter what time of year you are there. We were there to have a professional photo shoot and it’s just absolutely perfect for taking photos. It doesn’t matter if you hire a professional or just your amateur nephew. There are so many places to get great shots. When we got there it was a little chilly but perfect weather for a fall shoot.
If you like to read and want to be surrounded by nature this is the place. There are benches throughout or you can just bring a blanket and cop a squat. I think fall is my favorite season their it’s not too crowded and you can just look and listen to your surroundings.

This place is so peaceful and serene (prob more so without having to chase after a toddler). You can walk slowly and enjoy the scenery, beautiful paths, ponds, flowers, trees and plants. Perfect to pack some snacks and go for a walk on a cool, breeze day.

Childhood memories of seemingly wild thick green forests, swaths of colorful flowers with myriad white dots of sunshine dancing about still held true today 30 years later on an impromptu visit with my father.
We started with the perennial garden, grounded with a small pond, a waterfall and a heron statue surrounded by colorful wild flowers.
We wandered around to a large fountain and the rose garden with another water feature and stair structure that was built just before the WPA era in 1933, through a similar program.
The grounds are large and have a
«royalty for the everyman» kind of feel which makes it so nice.
We stopped by a community garden, which has a covered area with picnic tables, and only had time to briefly peek into the Japanese gardens, a place i remember fondly from childhood.
The park is free except for the Japanese Garden and the Rainforest conservancy.
I can’t imagine being sad here.