Hello! Im a "AGA Master Horticulturalist and archaeologist ..in theory...been a tattoo artist 15 years doing fuck all with my degrees... BUT- i've enjoyed your videos for quite some time now, and finally got the nuts, to try and contact you. I do videos on aquariums, fish, plants and the entire biome. I really enjoy your exploration of ludwigia and salvinia , as well as that orange carnation family flower. I was wondering if I could ever speak with you about a possible collaboration of aquatic plants perhaps?
Howdy from Texas!! You have some bad-ass videos and I thank you for them all. Here you are wandering around my state with so much knowledge!! I am a native Texas who wandered around the South Texas brush country as a child ( with my Grandpa) and now I live in the Hill Country area. Elev. 1200’. Tons of caves and limestone outcroppings everywhere. I live close to the Guadalupe River, with bald cypress and next to a creek. I saw my land transformed by removing juniper cedars, then within 4 months, Spring, I had a prairie of all native grasses, without having to buy ONE seed. Nature takes care of it’s own. I learned all about these grasses that covered my land. Also, had crop of Twisted Leaf Yucca ( do not know that botanical name); neighbor said it’s indigenous for that area. Glorious Texas!!
If I had more money I'd buy everything Joey is selling to do my part in making sure he doesn't have to go back to working on the railroads. I need these videos.
Another neat place to check out, if you're ever in north-central Louisiana - there're little prairie patches scattered around the Kitsatchie national forest, which the Forest Service botanist for that area told me develop where there're underground outcrops of limestone which make soil too thin and alkaline for the loblolly to root. It's weird walking out of dense loblolly forest into a community that looks like it should be in central Texas. I'll give a little more info on how to find those if you like. Thanks for all these videos!
Every time you said "Malibu beach house" my damaged language descrambler told me you were talking about a "mailable beach house." I shrugged and thought "well, you can buy anything enough money" before realizing what you really said. My brain's detour amused me.
15:56 Apios americana? Looks just like the groundnut I love so much here in Maine. I love my Fabaceas bastards. Thanks for the video, it's always nice to see stuff I might not have ever seen. Well, seen on a screen... Oh well, I take what I can get.
Yaupon!! No it doesnt make you vomit, its a good native caffeine leaf. They sell em at farmers markets now for a premium, but theyre all over in landscaping too
You pegged that neck of the woods pretty good in some of your commentary! As always great to watch your videos and always great to see that your wandering around in our area. Speaking of loss of habitat they just confirmed a mountain lion sighting a good ways west of where your at in Rowlett, Tx. Hope it doesn’t get taken out by some douche bag.
24:40-50 you missed a lizard on the bottom left of the yucca plant, he ran on one of the parts then skittered behind it shortly after. Big fan, would love to see some stuff from San Diego. Maybe an Easy county "ecology of piss and human degeneration" or something like that. Keep it up!
Shit yeah, I started recognizing things in the swamp region. Glad you made it to my climate zone! No telling how far back you filmed, but the red river wildlife refuge is astounding. Walter b jacobs memorial park in north caddo fucking kills. The kisatchie forest down there about alexandria louisiana? Also a banger
Love this channel so much! No one really goes into detail about North America botany except this channel. Keep up the great work, and for a video idea you should look at some plants in northern Florida in the pine Savannah ecosystems. Has a lot of beautiful aster species and has lots of signs of control burns which is kinda rare
Surprised to see an intact prairie anywhere in East Texas! My dad was from next door Polk county (Leukenbock is about 250 miles west in the Hill country!), and I've never seen a prairie there, just piney woods and thicket! Must have been a burn!
So get this. I am from Wisconsin, have that nice Wisconsin accent, lived in Florida for 18 years but the South never put a dent in my accent. Then I start watching your videos, as you post them and binging the older ones I missed, and you are making my accent thicken and change a little. I mean, I always said "How bout dat" or "look at dat o'er der" but now it is a little thicker. Dude.. Oh well, worse things could happen.
About that herbicided hyacinth: camped there one beautiful night and woke up in the ugly morning to the terrible sounds of a fan boat right next to my site, annoyed I got out of my tent to see some asshole pumping gallons of herbicide all over that hyacinth and shoreline like he’s giving water to a parched yard or something. Texas Parks and Wildlife doesn’t give a shit about the ecology they just want boats to be able cross the lake uninhibited
Thank you for this! ... lovin’ it! (myself a budding amateur botanist), thank you for inspirational videos. Thoroughly enjoy your descriptions, colorful language, sarcasmic commentary, and your charming interactions with wildlife. Keep it coming dear! I’ll share your channel with friends! Smiles
East Texas is like Southwest Louisiana except instead of extirpated the habitat is just severely threatened. Good luck finding a prairie in Louisiana where there once was 2 million acres of it
@@thornyturtleranch4u Only wetland I've ever been in is a cypress swamp (a cyprière) in the gallery forest along Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée, unless you count the whole prairie as a wetland since it's basically saturated all through the winter
We so far haven't found any wild snakes yet since I've lived here in the UK for last 16 years (from Utah) We live near grassland and ancient woodland, so I'm probably not looking!
@@jerickodoggo9595 To put it another way, IIRC the /species/ that parasitize humans are a tiny fraction of the mosquito species. If we removed just those species there would still be up to 99% of both the mosquito species and total population remaining. Genetic efforts to control mosquito populations target individual or small numbers of species, not all mosquitos indiscriminately.
That's what the Karankawa natives from this area did. Slathered themselves in shark fat (and probably other things) to keep the mosquitos and other pests away.
His channel grew pretty quickly. It's incredible that any botany channel could get this big. But I agree that this stuff needs to be even more popular.
An article about how Ilex vomitoria got its name (tldr: the brits trying to squash competition for the tea trade) www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-yaupon-tea-cassina
