The weather has finally caught up to the calendar. It feels like fall, and at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (FWBG), it looks like fall, too.

Gardeners have switched over flower beds and begun planting fall blooms in preparation for the FWBG’s annual Fall Japanese Festival, one of its biggest events.

“What’s special to me is you can kinda get away from the real world; kinda distance yourself and find some peace in a bit of a chaotic world,” FWBG Japanese Garden Horticulture Manager Chris Ransom said, looking out over the peaceful garden.

Gardeners spent two months preparing the grounds for the FWBG Fall Japanese Festival.

“So, the entire thing I’m trying to represent with the lines is trying to make a scenery that represents water, that represents something fluid, something moving,” Ger

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