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[Echium bourgeauanum on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands #4]

Description: Photograph of Echium bourgeauanum (Tajinaste or Tower of Jewels) from El Tiede on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands. Photograph of Echium bourgeauanum (Tajinaste or Tower of Jewels). A partial view of a striking, erect, stalk that is densely branched and covered with fuchsia-colored flowers that are tubular-shaped. The dense florets give a striking cylindrical shape to the stalk that tapers towards the top. An insect hovers near the right side of the stalk. On the left side, a building is visible… more
Date: June 8, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021

[Echium bourgeauanum on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands #5]

Description: Photograph of Echium bourgeauanum (Tajinaste or Tower of Jewels) from El Tiede on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands. Photograph of Echium bourgeauanum (Tajinaste or Tower of Jewels). A partial view of a striking, erect, stalk that is densely branched and covered with fuchsia-colored flowers that are tubular-shaped. The dense florets give a striking cylindrical shape to the stalk that tapers towards the top. An insect hovers near the left-side of the stalk. A rocky outcrop is visible in the backgr… more
Date: June 8, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021

[Echium bourgeauanum on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands #6]

Description: Photograph of Echium bourgeauanum (Tajinaste or Tower of Jewels) from El Tiede on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands. A partial view of a striking, erect, stalk that is densely branched and covered with fuchsia-colored flowers that are tubular-shaped. The dense florets give a striking cylindrical shape to the stalk that tapers towards the top. An insect rests on a flower on the left-side of the stalk.
Date: June 8, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021

[Eucryphia milliganii in Tasman Peninsula, Australia #1]

Description: Photograph of Eucryphia milliganii (dwarf leatherwood) branches in situ. In the center of the photograph, there is one white flower with four white rounded petals and prominent red stamens. Two decaying flowers are to the right of the white flower. Shiny, dark green oblong leaves occupy the rest of the branches.
Date: 1962-11~
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021

[Eucryphia milliganii in Tasman Peninsula, Australia #2]

Description: Photograph of Eucryphia milliganii (dwarf leatherwood) branches in situ. In the center of the photograph, there is one white flower with four white rounded petals and prominent red stamens. Two decaying flowers are to the right of the white flower. Shiny, dark green oblong leaves occupy the rest of the branches.
Date: 1962-11~
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021

[Exhibition Greenhouse #1]

Description: Photograph of inside a greenhouse in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. There are multiple leafy plants, most of them set along a sandy footpath lined with vertical bricks, with others placed on planks along the wall or hanging in vases from the ceiling. At left there is a large wooden cabinet and a decorated white bench. The roof of the greenhouse is made of hazy glass.
Date: unknown

[Exhibition Greenhouse #2]

Description: Photograph of inside a greenhouse in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. There are multiple leafy plants, both tall and short, most of them set along sandy footpaths lined with vertical bricks, with others placed on planks along the wall or hanging in vases from the ceiling. At left there is a large wooden cabinet partially obscured by foliage. The roof of the greenhouse is made of hazy glass.
Date: unknown

[Fall Festival Origami #1]

Description: Photograph of origami during the Fall Festival at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Square, multicolored origami paper is laid out on a white table, along with a paper crane and other folded shapes. A woman in a kimono folds paper for a young boy across from her. In the background, more people excitedly observe paper being folded by a second, obscured woman.
Date: 1981-11~

[Fall Festival Origami #2]

Description: Photograph of origami during the Fall Festival at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Square, multicolored origami paper is laid out on a white table, along with a paper crane and other folded shapes. A woman in a kimono folds paper for a young boy across from her. In the background, more people excitedly observe paper being folded by a second, obscured woman.
Date: 1981-11~

[Fall Festival Tea Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of a tea ceremony in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Observers watch a woman, dressed in a kimono, with her tea set, hand fans, and box of origami paper set atop a wooden table. She sits on a tatami mat placed upon a wooden floor. The ceremony takes place in a small teahouse with opened shoji doors and a scroll illustration of a Japanese maiden attached to the wall.
Date: [..1977-05]

[Floral Clock at Botanic Garden Entrance]

Description: Photograph of a floral clock at the eastern entrance of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The clock bears a stone trim and metal hands, and inside the clock is a symmetric arrangement of flowers that resembles the side profile of a budding flower. The bud, located along the center of the clock, is red; its pedals, purple; and the clock's foreground is made of white flowers. The clock reads approximately 8:55.
Date: [1986..]

[Flower Wagon in Japanese Garden]

Description: Photograph of a stationary wooden wagon bearing large round multicolored bundles of flowers in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The wagon is located to the left of a concrete path that meanders between trees and foliage, converging with another concrete path spanning across the picture and obscured by the wagon of flowers.
Date: October 1996

[Four Seasons Footpath]

Description: Photograph of a footpath in the Four Seasons Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A bench on the right side of the path is surrounded by numerous bushes of vibrant flowers ranging from red to white to pink. The footpath curves as it goes forward into the background, with a patch of vacant dirt in the left foreground. Two statues are faintly visible along the path.
Date: October 1995

[Fragrance Garden]

Description: 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-lik… more
Date: unknown

[Fragrance Garden Concrete Cast]

Description: 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
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