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Weather Update: For the safety of all attendees and participants, the GM Financial Parade of Lights has been rescheduled due to severe weather.

The new date is Sunday, November 30, at 6:00 PM. Read More

KNOW BEFORE YOU GROW

What works in this Texas heat?! Downtown Fort Worth, Inc., in partnership with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), is testing new, native plantings as part of our Main Street Beautification Master Plan. You can find these test beds along Throckmorton near the AT&T Building!

Bed # 95  

  • 22 Hemerocallis (Daylily) 
  • 8 Nepeta x faassenii (Catmint) 
  • 3 Rudbeckia maxima (Coneflower) 

Bed # 96 

  • 1 Acer negundo (Boxelder Maple) 
  • 10 Carex (Sedge/Feather Falls) 

Bed # 97 

  • 22 Stachys byzantine (Lamb’s Ear) 
  • 3 Hesperaloe parviflora (Red Yucca) 
  • 6 Wedelia texana  

Bed # 98 

  • 1 Ginkgo biloba (Princeton Sentry) 
  • 8 Powis Castle Artemisia (Silver Sage) 

Bed # 99 

  • 14 Senecio cineraria (Silver Dust) 

Bed # 128 

  • 20 Tradescantia pallida (Penny Blue Violas) 

Bed # 127 

  • 34 Dianthus (Georgia Peach Pie “Pink”)

Bed # 129 

  • 14 Nasella tenuissima (Mexican Feathergrass) 

Bed # 130 

  • 10 Muhlenbergia reverchonii (Undaunted Seep Muhly)