Butterflies in the Garden

FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDEN CENTER AND CONSERVATORY

Each year the Fort Worth Botanic Garden presents the  “Butterflies In The Garden” exhibit at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Conservatory.   

The exhibit is sponsored by:

·         The Fort Worth Botanic Gardens
·                  www.fwbg.org
 
·         Fort Worth Garden Club
·                  fortworthgardenclub.org
 
·         Fort Worth Botanical Society
·                    www.fwbg.org
 
·         Botanical Research Institute of Texas
·                    www.brit.org

The Travelling Toe joined in with the other Westmont Garden Club members to tour the exhibit.

The 2016 exhibit is titled "The Mayan Experience: and features butterflies from Central America, Africa, Asia and even the US. 

The Fort Worth Conservatory is 10,000 square feet of glass-enclosed tropical forest.  This conservatory houses plants from all of the world’s tropical regions. 

As you enter the conservatory a lovely waterfall welcomes visitors to the rainforest. 

The environment is perfect for the butterflies to enjoy and for visitors to enjoy the butterflies.  Throughout the rainforest, there is small hanging feeding stations loaded with various fruits for the butterflies to feast on.  Kroger sponsored the fruit for these feeding stations.

All the members enjoyed the stroll through the tropical rainforest butterfly hunting with cameras not nets.  Many butterflies were discovered fluttering about and resting on plants as well as on humans.

After enjoying the butterfly experience, it was then time for lunch.  Garden club members found their feeding station at the Gardens Restaurant on the grounds of the Botanical Gardens.