Japanese Garden Zen at the Fort Worth Texas Botanic Garden
Just a few hours south of Muskogee, there is a wonderful haven for garden lovers. Last weekend when it was 26-degrees and cloudy in Muskogee, it was 75-degrees and sunny at the Ft. Worth Botanic Garden ( www.fwbg.org/ ). the weather station on our roof The Botanic Garden itself looked like most winter landscapes but the seven-acre Japanese Garden ( www.fwbg.org/japanese.htm ) maintains its distinct beauty in the winter. The entire botanic garden is 109-acres with 23 gardens that are home to 2,500 species of native and exotic plants. The Japanese Garden was the inspiration of the parks and recreation director and the botanic garden director in 1968 and it was built on a site that was originally a bluff that opened onto the Trinity River floodplain. It served as a watering hole for cattle, a trash dump and a gravel pit. Clubs, businesses and individual donors contributed plants, materials and art objects to make the garden a reality. The garden has three entrances, representing heaven...