Leader for today's Ramble: Linda
Link to Don's Facebook album for this Ramble
Number of Ramblers today: 25
Today's emphasis: Ferns in the Lower Shade Garden and Dunson Native Flora Garden
Reading: Linda read a poem by Walt Whitman, 1885:
Show and Tell:
Tom brought a pair of large, dead Eastern Hercules Beetles to show off.
Richard brought a Smooth Sumac with aphid galls on the underside of the leavlets, as well as the red fruit/berries from the top of the plant.
Announcements/Interesting Things to Note:
Katherine Edison mentioned seeing a rat snake and a Barred Owl at her small water feature in Five Points,. Lot's of trees, such as Five Points has, provide habitat for varied wildlife.
Link to Don's Facebook album for this Ramble
Number of Ramblers today: 25
Today's emphasis: Ferns in the Lower Shade Garden and Dunson Native Flora Garden
Reading: Linda read a poem by Walt Whitman, 1885:
The Voice of the Rain
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, where, vaguely formed, altogether changed, and yet the same,
I descend to lave the droughts, the atoms, the dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn,
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure
and beautify it:
For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering,
Recked or unrecked, duly with love returns.
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, where, vaguely formed, altogether changed, and yet the same,
I descend to lave the droughts, the atoms, the dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn,
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure
and beautify it:
For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering,
Recked or unrecked, duly with love returns.
Show and Tell:
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| Eastern Hercules Beetle |
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| Sumac Aphid Galls on Smooth Sumac |
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| Red fruits on Smooth Sumac |
Announcements/Interesting Things to Note:
One of our Ramblers mentioned that he has been watching a Carolina Wren feed a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird at his place for the past two weeks.
Katherine Edison mentioned seeing a rat snake and a Barred Owl at her small water feature in Five Points,. Lot's of trees, such as Five Points has, provide habitat for varied wildlife.
Today's Route: Our focus today was ferns. We left the arbor and headed down the paved path, next to the Children's Garden comfort station, into the Lower Shade Garden and then through the Dunson Garden. We returned for a social hour, with cookies, at the outdoor tables on the back patio of the Visitor Center conservatory.
OBSERVATIONS:
All the ferns seen in today's Ramble are covered in this booklet by Linda. It contains photographs taken by Don Hunter as well as information about the life history, characteristics of different ferns and identification tips. This copy is made available on my Dropbox account. If you see a request to login just click the "X" in the upper right corner of the login box.
SUMMARY OF OBSERVED SPECIES:
Camellia Camellia japonica
Bottlebrush Buckeye Aesculus parviflora
Hosta Hosta sp.
Southern Lady Fern Athyrium asplenioides
Christmas Fern Polystichum acrostichoides
Black Cohosh Actaea racemosa
Southern Shield Fern Dryopteris ludoviciana
Spotted Orbweaver Neoscona crucifera
Royal Fern Osmunda regalis
Lady Fern Athyrium filix-femina
Southern Maidenhair Fern Adiantum capillus-veneris
Sensitive Fern Onoclea sensibilis
New York Fern Thelypteris noveboracensis
Broad Beech Fern Phegopteris hexagonoptera
Goldenseal Hydrastis canadensis
Northern Maidenhair Fern Adiantum pedatum
Painted Buckeye Aesculus sylvatica
Marginal Wood Fern Dryopteris marginalis
Running (Ground) Cedar Diphasiastrum digitatum
