Tyler Starr
30 September 2008 from 1615-1630
Location: The Martha Springer Botanical Gardens
Weather: 74 ̊ F, sunny, no wind
General: It seems like they’re changing up some of the plants in the gardens right now. A couple of the beds are just piles of dirt right now, and deeper into the gardens, there are many flags marking various things. I only saw one squirrel, who was eating these fruits that looked like small (about 1 inch across), green pumpkins. I also saw 2 mallard ducks, one male, and one female, in the stream. I could also hear some sort of bird or other animal up in a tree, whose call sounded sort of like a leaking hose spigot, but I couldn’t see anything in the tree. After walking around a bit, I decided to focus on two specific plants in particular that attracted my attention. The first was a long, tall stalk with 5 leaves sprouting out at various points in a star formation. At the top of each stalk, there was a very faint pink, almost white, and very small flower in a broad, flat cluster pattern, kind of like a small umbrella at the top of the stalk. The tallest stalks were about 8 to 10 feet tall. The other plant had a deep purple or magenta area in the shape of a long tube. Close up, the purple stuff looks sort of like a moss, but the plant is clearly not a moss because it has leaves and grows upright. They ranged from a couple of feet tall to some that were almost as tall as I am (see picture).
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