Ben Affleck Visits Botanical Garden

Celebrity Ben Affleck visited the with his two daughters around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to garden spokesman Danny Flanders.

"It was fun," said Flanders, noting the children spent most of their time playing with the caterpillar exhibit in the Children's Garden. "They were having a field day with that."

Flanders said since it was early in the morning, the family "pretty much had that garden to themselves."

Affleck's wife, Jennifer Garner, is in town filming the movie "The Odd Life of Timothy Green." 

"She's been here at least once," Flanders said. He said she's perused the garden and the gift shop. The family has purchased a group membership to the garden, he said, which "usually means they are coming back."

Several scenes for "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" were shot in early February at Forrest Hills Elementary School in Decatur. 

The movie is about a 10-year-old boy, Timothy Green, who is played by Cameron "C.J." Adams. The young actor was last seen in the movie "Dan in Real Life."

According to notices left on doors of Decatur homeowners in early February: Green in the movie mysteriously shows up one day in the small rural town of Stanleyville. Though he is young, small and somewhat "odd," Green's outlook on life injects feelings of hope and thoughts of possibilities into those around him, inspiring people of Stanleyville to be the individuals they always dreamed of being.