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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- BOTB_210321_10.JPG: Bartholdi Fountain
The Fountain of Light and Water was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA. The namesake of Bartholdi Park is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) installed on Liberty Island in New York, NY. The U.S. Congress purchased the cast-iron fountain in 1877 and placed it with the original U.S. Botanic Garden where the Capitol Reflecting Pool is located today. It was moved to its present site in 1932. The original gas lamps were converted to electricity in 1881, making the fountain a major attraction. The design features turtle-like aquatic beasts and large shells around the base, three sea nymphs and fish on the pedestal, and three youthful Tritons holding seaweed just under the top crown. The fountain stands 30 feet (9m) tall and weighs more than 15 tons (13,600 kg).
- BOTB_210321_25.JPG: United States Botanic Garden
Rain Garden
These rain gardens and the surrounding hardscapes capture rainwater--slowing it down and allowing it to soak into the ground rather than run into the sewer system. Water flowing across poorly managed landscapes, streets, and sidewalks picks up pollutants and flows into sewer systems or directly into streams and rivers where it can negatively impact the ecosystem. In the Mid-Atlantic region, stormwater runoff is one of the largest sources of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways. Rain gardens are part of the runoff solution and act as bioswales that filter rainwater through their vegetative and soil layers.
USBG.gov/RainGarden
- BOTB_210321_63.JPG: The boll weevil in front is shown again on a separate page.
- BOTB_210405_47.JPG: What's going on here?
The cast iron Fountain of Light and Water and the lamp posts surrounding it are being cleaned and repainted. This must be done approximately every 10 years, which requires the previous coats of paint to be fully removed down to bare metal. The new coating will be brown to mimic the color of a bronze fountain, as was originally intended by its creator Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.
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- Wikipedia Description: United States Botanic Garden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bartholdi Park lies just south of the Conservatory, across Independence Avenue. It is named for the fountain in the garden's center designed by Frédéric Bartholdi. One of the goals of this garden is to provide inspiration and ideas for home gardeners who visit it. It displays a variety of small structured and non-structured gardens, and infuses color, shape, and planting themes. One section of the garden is certified as a National Wildlife Federation Backyard Wildlife Habitat. The Park also houses the main administrative building for the United States Botanic Garden.
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