an expiring garden
The Museum of Science in Ft Worth is going to be remodeled, and the native plant garden along the east side of the building is going to be torn out. Beginning today, the plants are available to anyone who wants to try to rescue them.
We were there just last week to see the Star Wars exhibit with our grand-daughter and I snapped a few pictures of the garden. The garden is long and very narrow, sandwiched between a street and a parking lot, with a zig-zagging path through the middle of it. There are supposedly five different regions of Texas represented but there is not much noticeable differences.
These grasses in the East Texas area are in one of the few areas where you can actually see over the plants to the street. The path is only one person wide.
These turk’s caps and beautyberries are in the Edwards Plateau section. Most of the plants look pretty well-established. I don’t think I would attempt to dig them up. There is a parking lot not six feet behind these but you would never know it.
I sure would like to have these however.
September 12th, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
It’s nice that they’re offering them to whoever wants to dig them up. But you’re right–those established natives will have deep, extensive root systems. Good luck getting the sotols!
September 12th, 2007 @ 8:34 pm
Hi Bill,
Do you know if the museum will build a new garden after the work is done, or is this an expansion into the space?
Philo & I have been to the science museum but in February, which may be why I can’t remember the existence of the garden.
Are you going back with a shovel in the car?
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
September 13th, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
Beautiful pictures! If only I had such a green thumb!
September 13th, 2007 @ 4:15 pm
So did you get your plants?
Hope you didnt get dumped on by the latest hurricane to hit Texas. I think you are bit North of where it was.
September 13th, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
I had the chance to get some plants that way. I managed to dig one out of the ground and transplant it at home, but it didn’t survive long.
September 14th, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
Annie and Pam: Much as I would like to have some of those (especially the sotols) I am just going to buy my plants at the nursery and let them grow large. Digging a hole to plant them is enough work, without digging them up also.
Mary Lou: nope no effects from the last one.