I'm still amazed that most people have no curiosity when it comes to plants around them. Guess I found my tribe finally with the rest of ya weirdos. I love trying to distinguish between all the late bloomers. The taxonomists didn't help getting folks interested by splitting up all the Asters but everyone needs a job I guess. You getting Cholla stuck to ya is the content that keeps it interesting!
As a huge entomology nerd, I love when you mention the bugs you find, glad you're starting to point out and identify more of those species that you'll obviously encounter given plant-insect relationships
Love it when Uncle Tony starts getting a little philosophical and goes off ranting about landscaping atrocities. I just moved into a new place and almost dropped my lease when I saw the barberry planted in the "flower" bed.
Omg. You are basically me when I go hiking. Nobody wants to go with me. Most people are just thinking point A to point B. No fking way. I need to see EVERYTHING. And then I've got jackass whoever I invited standing there tapping their toe, looking at their watch. Unreal. So refreshing to know that there's people like this in the world. Because man do I feel alone sometimes.
Glumshoe on tumblr: Ideal hiking companions: botanists, entomologists, mycologists, people with asthma, children with ADHD, easily distractible dogs, people with great butts who walk slightly faster than I do
I grew up in this region and worked at Plant Depot in San Juan as my first job. I was the only person who actively promoted and purchased/sold native plants to my customers. It's disgusting how California's despise change. I absolutely love this ecosystem with all my heart
In the town I live in, they planted chestnuts and maples everywhere throughout the town in an area where there are mostly conifers. We had a snowstorm yesterday that dropped branches in just about every tree in a fifty-mile radius. In my yard, there is a nonnative tree that broke in half. Just a lot of unnecessary problems for no reason. Ninety-nine percent of these trees produce nonedible fruit, so there is not benefit there either. Provides alot of shade in the summer, but pine trees would do the same thing.
On a few streets in my neighborhood, we have non-native horse chestnuts for boulevard trees. Naturally, every fall they drop hundreds of ankle-rolling hazards all over the sidewalks 👌
8:58 "As I was walking, the freedom highway. I saw a sign saying, no trespassing. But on the other side. It didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.". Woody Guthrie. "This land is your land"
When I was a kid growing up in the Palos Verdes area , I use to make pea shooters out of poison hemlock (stems are hollow) and use castor bean seeds for the peas. Had no idea back then ,they were both poisonous .
Some dog or kid trampled my Opuntia growing in my front yard and broke off a few paddles. Little did they know they just increased the number of cactuses growing out there. Shout out to Cold Hardy Cactus (Kelly Grummons) for the cool Opuntias that grow in my yard here in the Denver area.
I love your videos so much. You have really inspired a deeper love of native plants within Me and I appreciate what you do. Would love to see some botanizing in the Northeast sometime, although I know we have some pretty common species here
I got an idea plant the Cholla around your house nice and tight especially under the windows. Then if some one breaks in, and steals your stuff you can follow the trail of blood to find them. I know first hand they go right through jeans.😆
Joey-Tony, when the world gets to be too much, I can always take a moment of respite in your videos. Your enthusiasm will help get me through the day. Thanks Pal!
Cactus is one of the coolest plants around. The fsct thst you can pretty much take a random clipping of almost any cactus I know of and just stick it in the ground and it grows into a full version of itself is just wild to me.
Hey guy, I don't have any money from the Leathermans, but as further endorsement, I have found 2 broken leatherman tools, and I got both replaced/repaired with no questions asked or original purchase receipt necessary, kickass company with kickass tools. Thanks for making all the great videos, and bleeding for our entertainment.
BEAUTIFUL CHULA VISTA!! Thanks for the shoutout. I grew up in Chula and enjoy seeing all these species thrive in our canyons enveloped by houses and neighborhoods. Theres a beautiful area by my house with some old growth heteromeles and Rhus integrifolia, so large that you hike through tunnels of it. It is the area where I fell in love with plants and the idea of recreational green spaces
I wonder what the original seed disperser of the Cholla cactus was? Now-extinct North American Camelids maybe? Shasta GroundSloth? Gotta do some research for sure.
Thank you, much appreciated, doc. That laughter was so full of endorphins, even I got a kick! It's always nice to see the kids thoroughly enjoying recess time. . .🔥. . 🦌🙏🦌
These lectures should be presented to college students. Even high school students. They've all heard the swear words before, and it would actually keep them engaged with the content. You add in geology, Latin, entomology, and wildlife science. If a high school teacher were bold enough to show this to students, they'd be the kids favorite. It kills me that schools aren't trying to make learning fun & creative. All I hear from kids today is how boring school is.
I used to work at Tijuana river valley county park and had access all along the border till the ocean and all the bluffs near by. Wish i could have driven you around to see some other rare and endangered plants in the area that are hard to find or where you would have gotten kicked out of unless you were with a ranger from the county or state with in the neighboring land. such a cool place
☆I learn sooo much, from your channel. Thank you for your time, care, and efforts! I definitely have been spouting off, much like 'Tony's terets-lol. Gonna go sit on the copier and make another of myself, or two. Makes my day everytime you post!☆ Cheers to you & yours ☆
The raptors do that to warn all the animals in the area that there’s a human there. Cause the only humans they’re used to aren’t very nice to their animal friends.
Animals really do be watching out for each other and communicating across species, just like in kids' movies. The scientists of the 19th century were un-scientific in dismissing the possibility of animal cognition out of hand.
I was excited to see that roadcut, a word for something I have only just recently learned about on my favorite podcast, Ologies! Would love to see you on there someday. I get the feeling it's not an if, but a when. 😉
Joey thanks for the review of these cholla. I have heard or read that if one is desperate, the fruits can be eaten. It would be interesting to know the truth about this. Maybe you would comment the next time cholla are reviewed.
Autumn blooming Asters nectar food for migrating Monarch Butterflies, so important to their safe journey south toward Oyamel Fir trees or Eucalyptus in CA. As well as the Syrphid flies. Thank you Tony, I always in joy your “colourful” videos. Yes be where you live and garden accordingly.👍🏼🤗 Lol, Raptors 🪶and poky 🌵ouch! Y’all crazy!!
Oh my god I love you so much! reddit showed me your coyote pup vid but I am a plant lover and was completely captivated by your obvious love and regard for plants. I will watch the hell out of all your plant vids, and thank you so much for all the fascinating information. Also I agree, oleander is a scourge; but I love fennel, I use it in cooking.
Thanks man. Cos yeah I come home from work and I have to go into the garden and sit and look at the pollinators and the flowers. And yeah it does calm the beast. I'm not at the stage where I need to stab myself with a cactus but you know each to their own..
Being so close to the border wall, it would be good to mention that there is a big difference between migration of humans, and invasions by non-native species. Humans are all one species, we are invasive, but we can also choose to change our most damaging behaviors. These walls are really bad for plants and many other species.
40 years ago or so, I was down just outside of Ensenada with a friend of mine, admiring the sunset, and I walked into a cholla. The pain was like being struck by lightning. The cactus attached itself to my thigh. I had spines in my thigh. Trying to pry it off, I got spines in my hands. Trying to bite the spines out of my hands, i got them in my lips. It was a week and a half before I was free of the things. I didn't know the name of it in those days, so I got into the habit of calling it a leg biter cactus. If Trump was really serious about keeping Mexicans out, he should have planted thickets of cholla along the border instead of building a wall.
I know exactly this area, super cool area to go hiking. Lots of stuff to see the closer you look. Malosma laurina is way under utilized. I feel like jojoba, another common plant in this community could be used well too.
Asters are going nuts in Jalisco near Chapala. A few from the g. tethonia some Chromolaena odorata and Cosmos sulphureus. BTW the tethonias are manhandling the hell out of the Ricinus communis. Thanks for mentioning the native pollinators shout out to our native meliponas :-)
Talking of the euro honey bee, I for one would love to see a few videos from a trip to Europe. I'm thinking The Lizard pennisula in the UK, late spring. Some bangers over there. Thyme broomrape, Spring squill, Pennywort, erica vagans , yellow cantaury, its just so good down there.
Three species of Aster blooming today at Rainforest Hollow East Tennessee. They must have built in incompatibilities as I've never observed any natural hybrids in 21 years here.
✨🌎 Beautiful Botanical Jaunt ~ You would be the best Elementary School 🏫 Field Trip Mentor & Teacher Of Good EarthWise Knowledge to the School Children 👍
Coming from Australia it's great to see the parallel adaptations, waxy coatings etc. Sucks what eucalyptus spp. are up to over there, especially when so many of them are in trouble back home!
Likewise it is interesting that chollas are an extremely invasive species here in Australia, especially out near Lightening Ridge. Humans have caused all kinds of issues with moving flora about!
@@forestsandlace5996 really? That's cool as hell, Australian orchids are super cool, I live in the south west and we have an incredible variety particularly of the Caladenia
Now I know what that mystery plant volunteer was in the store-bought plants. Willow leaf coyote bush, baccharis salicifolia (male?). Everything else in that pot died while this sprung up and thrived. (4000' SE AZ)
I'd love to see you do a 'The Green Planet' reaction video. The tropical (ep1) and deserts (ep3) are right up your street. I think its now on PBS in the US
I grew a very nice Ferocactus viridescens from a few seeds I collected in San Diego. I have a few more in my yard that I purchased. - The silly Seek app keeps identifying ubiquitous coastal Baccharis pilularis with its small slightly dentate leaves as B. sarothroides, which can also grow on the coast, but which has the willow-shaped leaves. Annoying.
I'm still amazed that most people have no curiosity when it comes to plants around them. Guess I found my tribe finally with the rest of ya weirdos. I love trying to distinguish between all the late bloomers. The taxonomists didn't help getting folks interested by splitting up all the Asters but everyone needs a job I guess.
You getting Cholla stuck to ya is the content that keeps it interesting!
As a huge entomology nerd, I love when you mention the bugs you find, glad you're starting to point out and identify more of those species that you'll obviously encounter given plant-insect relationships
uh huh
Thank you for the little bits of joy you bring in a world that greets me with daily existential dread both macro and micro.
Love it when Uncle Tony starts getting a little philosophical and goes off ranting about landscaping atrocities. I just moved into a new place and almost dropped my lease when I saw the barberry planted in the "flower" bed.
Omg. You are basically me when I go hiking. Nobody wants to go with me. Most people are just thinking point A to point B. No fking way. I need to see EVERYTHING. And then I've got jackass whoever I invited standing there tapping their toe, looking at their watch. Unreal. So refreshing to know that there's people like this in the world. Because man do I feel alone sometimes.
Glumshoe on tumblr: Ideal hiking companions: botanists, entomologists, mycologists, people with asthma, children with ADHD, easily distractible dogs, people with great butts who walk slightly faster than I do
Thank you for your attention to detail about the European honey bee vs. the native pollinators!
"every time you take seed, you gotta spread some, don't be an asshole"
That border wall is ridiculous
These are ridiculous times.
Tony the plant whisperer
Always comes through, making botany entertaining AF
So excited! Exceptional! Even a little S&M. Who knew botany could be so fun. Thanks again.
I grew up in this region and worked at Plant Depot in San Juan as my first job. I was the only person who actively promoted and purchased/sold native plants to my customers.
It's disgusting how California's despise change.
I absolutely love this ecosystem with all my heart
I love the optimism "...don't know what that means, do down a rabbit hole and you'll figure it out"!!!
In the town I live in, they planted chestnuts and maples everywhere throughout the town in an area where there are mostly conifers. We had a snowstorm yesterday that dropped branches in just about every tree in a fifty-mile radius. In my yard, there is a nonnative tree that broke in half. Just a lot of unnecessary problems for no reason. Ninety-nine percent of these trees produce nonedible fruit, so there is not benefit there either. Provides alot of shade in the summer, but pine trees would do the same thing.
On a few streets in my neighborhood, we have non-native horse chestnuts for boulevard trees. Naturally, every fall they drop hundreds of ankle-rolling hazards all over the sidewalks 👌
8:58
"As I was walking,
the freedom highway.
I saw a sign saying,
no trespassing.
But on the other side.
It didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and
me.". Woody Guthrie. "This land is your land"
Thank you for your sacrifice Tony 😮 I plan on using a zoom macro if I ever encounter Cylindropuntia...
that clip of your friend throwing cholla segments at you 💀
When I was a kid growing up in the Palos Verdes area , I use to make pea shooters out of
poison hemlock (stems are hollow) and use castor bean seeds for the peas.
Had no idea back then ,they were both poisonous .
Some dog or kid trampled my Opuntia growing in my front yard and broke off a few paddles. Little did they know they just increased the number of cactuses growing out there.
Shout out to Cold Hardy Cactus (Kelly Grummons) for the cool Opuntias that grow in my yard here in the Denver area.
I love your videos so much. You have really inspired a deeper love of native plants within Me and I appreciate what you do. Would love to see some botanizing in the Northeast sometime, although I know we have some pretty common species here
You would make the best high school botany teacher!!!! I image they would love to learn from you. Keep up the good work and thanks for the videos.
Any class that ends with "go fuck yourself, bye" 🤌
As a hip hop head and a leatherman collector(I use my tools)…I really like this episode
so happy you're geeking out over our native insects, particularly the Diptera! 🥰 - San Diegan
It's a beautiful area. Thanks for this video.
I got an idea plant the Cholla around your house nice and tight especially under the windows. Then if some one breaks in, and steals your stuff you can follow the trail of blood to find them. I know first hand they go right through jeans.😆
Joey-Tony, when the world gets to be too much, I can always take a moment of respite in your videos. Your enthusiasm will help get me through the day. Thanks Pal!
Cactus is one of the coolest plants around. The fsct thst you can pretty much take a random clipping of almost any cactus I know of and just stick it in the ground and it grows into a full version of itself is just wild to me.
Hey guy, I don't have any money from the Leathermans, but as further endorsement, I have found 2 broken leatherman tools, and I got both replaced/repaired with no questions asked or original purchase receipt necessary, kickass company with kickass tools.
Thanks for making all the great videos, and bleeding for our entertainment.
BEAUTIFUL CHULA VISTA!!
Thanks for the shoutout. I grew up in Chula and enjoy seeing all these species thrive in our canyons enveloped by houses and neighborhoods. Theres a beautiful area by my house with some old growth heteromeles and Rhus integrifolia, so large that you hike through tunnels of it. It is the area where I fell in love with plants and the idea of recreational green spaces
I wonder what the original seed disperser of the Cholla cactus was? Now-extinct North American Camelids maybe? Shasta GroundSloth? Gotta do some research for sure.
Menziesii, Nice!
That video of you and your buddy was hilarious! 😆 I remember doin stupid sht like that. Lol
Your channel is one of few that I set to full screen and watch, its beautiful.
Thank you, much appreciated, doc.
That laughter was so full of endorphins, even I got a kick! It's always nice to see the kids thoroughly enjoying recess time.
. .🔥. .
🦌🙏🦌
Thanks again for all the great content, I finally got a decent JAHB so I can buy your book!
These lectures should be presented to college students. Even high school students. They've all heard the swear words before, and it would actually keep them engaged with the content. You add in geology, Latin, entomology, and wildlife science. If a high school teacher were bold enough to show this to students, they'd be the kids favorite. It kills me that schools aren't trying to make learning fun & creative. All I hear from kids today is how boring school is.
Thanks for the laughs Joey you human dartboard.
I used to work at Tijuana river valley county park and had access all along the border till the ocean and all the bluffs near by. Wish i could have driven you around to see some other rare and endangered plants in the area that are hard to find or where you would have gotten kicked out of unless you were with a ranger from the county or state with in the neighboring land. such a cool place
Appreciate the teaching of Native Plants , good to be educating on your surroundings. What kind of boots btw?
I think the boots are US-made Redwings. EXPENSIVE but durable, unlike Redwings' imported models.
☆I learn sooo much, from your channel. Thank you for your time, care, and efforts! I definitely have been spouting off, much like 'Tony's terets-lol. Gonna go sit on the copier and make another of myself, or two. Makes my day everytime you post!☆ Cheers to you & yours ☆
Tony your videos keep me going after a crappy day at work . Thanks
I like that the Venus fly trap could just get energy from the sun but chooses violence…thanks T!
The violence is needed to acquire mineral nutrients, particularly nitrogen.
Holy shit, Cook county tourette's had me laughing out loud on the bus
I'm just getting into botanical art. Damn I'm glad I found your channel and I'm freaking learning a lot!
Great episode. Your appreciation and curiosity is appreciated.
You’re a nut but I enjoyed your video and I will watch. Thank you for the making me smile.
The raptors do that to warn all the animals in the area that there’s a human there. Cause the only humans they’re used to aren’t very nice to their animal friends.
Animals really do be watching out for each other and communicating across species, just like in kids' movies. The scientists of the 19th century were un-scientific in dismissing the possibility of animal cognition out of hand.
I have been exploring the Borrego Springs area recently and your stuff is gold!
Barrel cactus fruits last a long time , they taste like lemons the fruit does. Great snack .
What are you Yoda?
Beautiful area, reminds me of the walks along the San Luis Rey bike trail in Oceanside.💚
Was not prepared for dat cook county turrets. Its all goid do
TYME CRYME FYNE
I was excited to see that roadcut, a word for something I have only just recently learned about on my favorite podcast, Ologies! Would love to see you on there someday. I get the feeling it's not an if, but a when. 😉
Amazing beauty. Watching from Borneo.
"I like mean plants, I like it when plants are assholes."
Tony Santoro, 2022
Thanks for another fantastic video!
Lmao I bet the hawk was pissed bc you either got too close to a nest or scared off their lunch 😆 🤣
Joey thanks for the review of these cholla. I have heard or read that if one is desperate, the fruits can be eaten. It would be interesting to know the truth about this. Maybe you would comment the next time cholla are reviewed.
i always carry a leatherman when i walk around cholla. the amount of spines and arms ive pulled off people is crazy.
I can only imagine the ICE agents watching you with those surveillance cameras and thinking they witnessed a vegan coyote collecting dinner.
They are like naw he's talking to the cactus, he's not making a run for it.
Hilarious episode! 😂
Thoroughly enjoyed.
Autumn blooming Asters nectar food for migrating Monarch Butterflies, so important to their safe journey south toward Oyamel Fir trees or Eucalyptus in CA. As well as the Syrphid flies. Thank you Tony, I always in joy your “colourful” videos. Yes be where you live and garden accordingly.👍🏼🤗 Lol, Raptors 🪶and poky 🌵ouch! Y’all crazy!!
Oh my god I love you so much! reddit showed me your coyote pup vid but I am a plant lover and was completely captivated by your obvious love and regard for plants. I will watch the hell out of all your plant vids, and thank you so much for all the fascinating information. Also I agree, oleander is a scourge; but I love fennel, I use it in cooking.
Thanks man. Cos yeah I come home from work and I have to go into the garden and sit and look at the pollinators and the flowers. And yeah it does calm the beast. I'm not at the stage where I need to stab myself with a cactus but you know each to their own..
Being so close to the border wall, it would be good to mention that there is a big difference between migration of humans, and invasions by non-native species. Humans are all one species, we are invasive, but we can also choose to change our most damaging behaviors. These walls are really bad for plants and many other species.
I wasn't expecting a del the funky homosapien reference in a botany video, but thank you
Cholla: in Soviet California, the vegetables eat You.
Wtf?
The thumbnail: I Bleed for Chola. Is a good name for some desert sludge rock
Got to coexist? Love them 🐝🐝🐝 bee's! Very interesting 🤔
40 years ago or so, I was down just outside of Ensenada with a friend of mine, admiring the sunset, and I walked into a cholla. The pain was like being struck by lightning. The cactus attached itself to my thigh. I had spines in my thigh. Trying to pry it off, I got spines in my hands. Trying to bite the spines out of my hands, i got them in my lips. It was a week and a half before I was free of the things. I didn't know the name of it in those days, so I got into the habit of calling it a leg biter cactus. If Trump was really serious about keeping Mexicans out, he should have planted thickets of cholla along the border instead of building a wall.
Not an entomology nerd but a certain appreciator 😅 love it too I’m always talking to the beings around me
I think I'd rather be water-boarded than be subjected that cactus dart-board treatment
That's a tough one.
Ahhh thx! Much needed relaxing content.
nice bonus footage fun fun
Thanks for the great vid Tony
I always enjoy watching😉👍
Shout out to you my dude! Much love
Thank you for the tour of the beautiful border flora Sir.
I love the profanity sarcasm lil tid bits you sprinkle into the information it's just delightful
I know exactly this area, super cool area to go hiking. Lots of stuff to see the closer you look.
Malosma laurina is way under utilized. I feel like jojoba, another common plant in this community could be used well too.
16:30 hi i'm Tony. Welcome to Jaehckess
Joey, please come visit Minnesota some time. Banger plants and ecosystems here that could use some more appreciation.
I would have loved to hear you interacting with da fuzz!
Asters are going nuts in Jalisco near Chapala. A few from the g. tethonia some Chromolaena odorata and Cosmos sulphureus. BTW the tethonias are manhandling the hell out of the Ricinus communis. Thanks for mentioning the native pollinators shout out to our native meliponas :-)
six foot spread daht cahm
Talking of the euro honey bee, I for one would love to see a few videos from a trip to Europe. I'm thinking The Lizard pennisula in the UK, late spring. Some bangers over there. Thyme broomrape, Spring squill, Pennywort, erica vagans , yellow cantaury, its just so good down there.
Three species of Aster blooming today at Rainforest Hollow East Tennessee.
They must have built in incompatibilities as I've never observed any natural hybrids in 21 years here.
✨🌎 Beautiful Botanical Jaunt ~ You would be the best Elementary School 🏫 Field Trip Mentor & Teacher Of Good EarthWise Knowledge to the School Children 👍
Del the funky homosapien is chillin’
Coming from Australia it's great to see the parallel adaptations, waxy coatings etc.
Sucks what eucalyptus spp. are up to over there, especially when so many of them are in trouble back home!
I'd love to get him out here
Likewise it is interesting that chollas are an extremely invasive species here in Australia, especially out near Lightening Ridge. Humans have caused all kinds of issues with moving flora about!
@@PeterPaoliello He's got some awesome videos that he made over here, I really enjoyed the ones on our native orchids.
@@forestsandlace5996 really? That's cool as hell, Australian orchids are super cool, I live in the south west and we have an incredible variety particularly of the Caladenia
@@hairymcnipples Yeah, there's a whole Western Australia series if you scroll back a bit in the channel.
Now I know what that mystery plant volunteer was in the store-bought plants. Willow leaf coyote bush, baccharis salicifolia (male?). Everything else in that pot died while this sprung up and thrived. (4000' SE AZ)
the cook county tourettes bit gave me red line flashbacks
Reddit brought me here, great channel. I just subscribed and hoping to learn a lot more from your videos.
Thanks for the great vid
The dirty mouthed botanist. I love it!
I'd love to see you do a 'The Green Planet' reaction video. The tropical (ep1) and deserts (ep3) are right up your street. I think its now on PBS in the US
Just got sent your channel and this is fucking gold. New subscriber got GOT.
love it. Thanks bruh.
This guy fill a niche that only he can. He’s definitely not an invasive species, no matter where he is.
Can we get a video about the inspirations for your tattoos, pretty please?
I just realized that your dog probably thinks, "time for dad to go into nature and yell at plants again!"
You got the true desert experience! 😆
Would you ever do Florida?? 😊
Invasive daydream
I grew a very nice Ferocactus viridescens from a few seeds I collected in San Diego. I have a few more in my yard that I purchased. - The silly Seek app keeps identifying ubiquitous coastal Baccharis pilularis with its small slightly dentate leaves as B. sarothroides, which can also grow on the coast, but which has the willow-shaped leaves. Annoying.