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[Street being decorated for the flower festival on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands]

Description: Photograph of a group of people decorating the street by spreading flowers on the road in large rectangular patches for the flower festival. Two children walk closely along side each other with their backs to the camera. The street is flanked by light-pink and light-blue colored buildings on either side. The red and yellow national flag of Spain hangs from a balcony.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021

[Street with flower festival decorations on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands #2]

Description: Photograph of a street with buildings on either side on Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands. Two large rectangles of red, green, and yellow flower art decorations lay on top of the street for the flower festival. In the foreground, one man stands in the street with his back to the camera and two men stand on the sidewalk with their backs along the wall of a building. In the background, another man is walking down the sidewalk with his back to the camera.
Date: May 13, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021

[Suzuki Garden Dedication]

Description: Photograph of the dedication of the Suzuki Garden, a karesansui-style dry garden, at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The garden, surrounded by a wooden fence, contains tiled rock coverings, a flat surface of sand, and a small field of round bumpy rocks,Two men kneel upon a taiko mat at center, one preparing a bow and arrow (kyūdō), and the other accompanying. A makiwara, a hay target placed on a tall stand, is located adjacent to them.
Date: April 7, 2000

[Treasure Tree Gift Shop #1]

Description: Photograph of the Treasure Tree Gift Shop in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gift shop, featured in the background, is located in front of a calm pond lined with rocks, grasses, and trees, and has a wooden veranda with a small set of wide stairs along a wall of glass windows, as well as a gray Dutch gable roof. The gift shop is accessible by footpaths that go around the pond, partially visible in the image.
Date: [1973..]

[Treasure Tree Gift Shop #2]

Description: Photograph of the Treasure Tree Gift Shop in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gift shop, featured in the background, is located in front of a calm pond lined with rocks, grasses, and trees, and has a wooden veranda with a small set of wide stairs along a wall of glass windows, as well as a gray Dutch gable roof. The gift shop is accessible by footpaths that go around the pond, partially visible in the image.
Date: [1973..]

[Trial Garden]

Description: Photograph of the Trial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The photograph is taken from above, displaying the entire garden, which is octagonal in shape. A tall wooden gazebo stands at center, and several elevated flower beds surround it along its octagonal perimeter. There are three levels of flower beds extending out from the gazebo, with concrete footpaths in between. More footpaths are visible connecting to different parts of the Botanic Garden in all cardinal directs. Interstate 30 i… more
Date: 1979

[Trial Garden Gazebo]

Description: 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]

[Trial Garden Gazebo and Planting Beds]

Description: 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

[Trial Garden Planting Beds]

Description: 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]

[Umstead Teahouse #1]

Description: Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The teahouse sits over the garden pond, held by stilts in the water, and features a wooden balcony, shuttered shoji screen doors, and a pagoda-style roof. Large bushes and small trees sit on the edge of the pond, and koi fish are visible swimming within.
Date: [1973..]

[Umstead Teahouse #2]

Description: Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The teahouse sits over the garden pond, held by stilts in the water, and features a wooden balcony, shuttered shoji screen doors, and a pagoda-style roof. Flower bushes are visible along the balcony, and large bushes and small trees sit on the edge of the pond.
Date: [1973..]

[Umstead Teahouse #3]

Description: Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The teahouse sits over the garden pond, held by stilts in the water, and features a wooden balcony, shuttered shoji screen doors, and a pagoda-style roof. Large bushes and small trees sit on the edge of the pond, and koi fish are visible swimming within.
Date: [1973..]

[Umstead Teahouse #4]

Description: Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The teahouse sits over the garden pond, held by stilts in the water, and features a wooden balcony, shuttered shoji screen doors, and a pagoda-style roof. Large pink flower bushes and tall grasses sit on the edge of the pond, and koi fish are faintly visible swimming within. In the background are several stone steps, another pagoda-style building, and a wooden fence.
Date: April 1990

[Umstead Teahouse Base Construction]

Description: Photograph of a wooden and concrete base under construction for the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Several workers lay a flat subfloor over the wooden joists of a lumber frame, built on round concrete stilts projecting into an empty concrete pond below, while other workers stand on the dirt path alongside the pond with tools and wheelbarrows. A Japanese-style gate stands behind them, as well as a small hill with concrete walls at right. Boulders and small trees sit … more
Date: 1972~

[Umstead Teahouse Frame Construction]

Description: Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse under construction at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, its frame partially built on a wooden base set on round concrete stilts.The pond it is built over is partially filled with stagnant water. A worker walks across the teahouse's base, while workers in the back sit in front of a Japanese-style pavilion. Pieces of lumber and saw horses are scattered across the site.
Date: 1972-03~

[Umstead Teahouse, Roof Near Completion]

Description: Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse under construction in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Built on a wooden base constructed on round concrete stilts, the teahouse remains incomplete, with wooden boards built on the teahouse's sides and the roof nearly completed, covered with a flat material but lacking shingles. Several narrow pieces of wood are laid diagonally on several parts of the teahouse. The pond is mostly filled with stagnant, green water.
Date: 1972-07~
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