With summer heat tightening its grip on North Texas, two of the region’s most popular outdoor destinations, the Fort Worth Zoo and Fort Worth Botanic Garden, are adjusting their hours of operation in deference to rising temperatures.
Beginning today (July 10), the Fort Worth Zoo resumes summer hours, opening an hour earlier at 9 a.m. and closing at 4 p.m. Monday-Friday (5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday). Summer hours at the Botanic Garden are 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Botanic Garden offers a members-only hour at 7 a.m. daily.
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Take a moment to consider the humble tree. Handsome and stoic, they line our streets and fill our parks, littering us with leaves and quietly cleansing the air we breathe.
On July 30, channel your inner Lorax and take part in National Tree Day. Since 1996, the annual holiday has brought together nature lovers from across the country to learn more about our country’s trees and plant a few as well.
Adrian Benepe, President and CEO of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG). Photo: Michael Stewart.
EAGLE: I guess a really simple jumping off point would just be to ask you what got you into your love of trees and gardens and urban ecology? I know that you grew up in the city, so was this a fascination that has existed since you were young, or did you have to come to it at some point and what brought you there?
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A lantern fly settled on the microphone as Daisy Castro, a violinist, played with her band before several hundred people gathered on picnic blankets in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the launch of the Jazz in July series.
During a break between songs, Castro picked up the insect and blew it away. Such was to be expected, given the venue. Birds circled above, and the branches of two nearby
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Huh? Yes, I have been derelict in not giving a lot of ink to the Botanic Garden in the Atkins-Porter neighborhood on Jackson Street. Mostly created and maintained by volunteers in the area, the jewel shines among the hundred-year-old residences there. They provide an apt surrounding to the Botanic Garden itself.
When Fort Worth Zoo built an Elephant Springs habitat in 2021 for Asian elephants and greater one-horned rhino, it created a 400,000-gallon pool.
To survive the summer heat, the big mammals can just plop in the “river.”
Starting July 10, the Fort Worth Zoo opens and closes an hour earlier; the new hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Fort Worth Botanic Garden is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a 7 a.m. members-only hour. Both organizations close at 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
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