I visited family in Odessa, TX and they were so excited to show me "how big the city has gotten" and all I could think was, "I get that this whole landscape is hellish, but why do all the new buildings have to be hideous too?"
Yo Joey, thanks for your work. Publicise these plant rescue ops ahead of time. There are a number of us plant rehabilitators out here who are game, knowledgeable and retired(mobile easily). I would like to help. We need to sell the idea of planting these natives in the beds of the eyesore buildings.
My favorite videos of yours are when you're interacting with other botanists. But I still love the solo ranting and cussing at lawns and parking lots, don't get me wrong!
The amount of habitat destruction in Texas and especially DFW is disgusting. Born and raised here so I can say it. I know Randy Johnson and appreciate his knowledge and love for native plants! Thanks for the work you're all doing to educate people.
A customer of mine turned me onto your channel. Texas is so lucky to have you here. Hopefully one day I will be treated to a Cross Timbers vid from you, either way, I have learned so much from you. Thank you so much.
The crazy thing is that this hideous construction is going on in even places that are not growing in population. I'm originally from Louisiana and in the population stagnant area of Houma all these clone tract houses are popping up like crazy.
I'm sure that everyone else here is also just in awe of the integrity and passion of these guys, knowledgeable, open, and still humble and humorous in the face of such habitat destruction. Massive respect for you guys doing what you're doing, so good to know you'd be doing it anyway without a camera in your face. Fantastic.
You were hangin' with two good humans! Scraping building sites was an idea I had back in the eighties. Didn't work out for me but I'd encourage anyone to pursue that business model!
I grew up less >20 mins from Garland. every time I go back to visit my hometown my heart just breaks just remembering the grassy fields sprawling in every direction, especially outside my grandparents' home. newer homes are towering and shoved close together, walking through a neighborhood is like being surrounded by prison walls to keep nature "outside". you can't see anything beyond them. additionally, there is an awfully large amount of crap being developed over there- just hostile, thoughtless and stupid ugly crap. just its difficult to visit while remembering how it was. off HWY 78 on the way into town there's a known hill where bluebonnets flower and on top of it they built a big ugly SPECS.
My husband is from Garland and said “He nailed it.” Please come to Costa Rica! (More specifically Santa Teresa because we have unchecked growth and a lot of soil and plant life being destroyed in an area that is rare dry rainforest) but it’s no Garland that’s for sure! It’s still very beautiful here.
This area has some really cool plants, it's sad to see it slated for destruction. I was at this site a few months back when several local groups got together for a rescue mission, primarily targeting Dalea hallii. We were able to collect several hundred plants, but there is so much more still there. I collected some specimens of the Yucca, Liatris and Penstemon, and they are now part of my landscape in Dallas. It really is a shame that so many of these plants get completely looked over, they make WAY better landscape plants than the garbage that's available at most nursery's and big box stores.
If it's verbatim 'Digital Realty', it's gonna be a datacenter, i.e a node where internet provider infrastructure meets to be able to connect to each other, sorta like a telephone exchange if you know what that is.
These guests are great humans! I grew up in FL with lots of nature. Now it's wall to wall concrete and landscaped stuff that isn't native. Wish I knew then what I know now. I'd have been a happy nature guerilla. Save those plants and ecosystems!! ❤
We ain't doomed lol imagine thinking humans are that important they can end everything 😂 nah we can't even exterminate ourselves, or we would've by now.
I 2nd that emotion on the Ligustrum (aka privet). It's taking over my small Texas town right this minute! Truly, it's an evil plant here in our country!! (It's from Japan & has nothing here to stop it.) Their leaves make their own glyphosate (aka Round Up weed killer) and I've seen the ligustrum roots literally wrapped around other tree roots to kill them off. I saw a nice big oak tree, with a trunk 2 feet across, surrounded by a stand of privet, the oak is loosing. Those murderous plants are blatantly killing it ! I've been doing what I can to save the oak, but I'm not sure it's going to work, might be too late... But I won't stop trying!!! The really stupid thing is the nurseries STILL SELL IT to homeowners all over the state!!! And there aren't any warnings that come with it either.
I think those Osage oranges are what we called horse apples when I was a kid. They had latex in the outer layer and fuzzy stuff around the seeds in the center, and weren't good for anything except throwing at other kids or random stuff like fire hydrants. Some kids threw them at cars but that latex might hurt paint, idk. My favorite thing to throw them at was wooden fence-posts with a barb-wire fence, and if a chunk got stuck on a barb that was extra points.
I know every plant & fruit has a purpose. However, as a suburban kid in America, the most, no, the ONLY use we ever got out of them was having fun throwing them at each other!! As a side note, I very much like the shape of those old trees. They're pretty cool looking when they get quite big. They have a nice umbrella shape canapy that looks pleasant from far away. And up close, with the branches bending down to the ground from the weight of their big fruits, that creates a natural club house type of space under that canapy. And usually, the branches are so heavily leafed that people can't see inside the club house when you're in it! As a kid, I really liked those trees. As an adult (sadly) I just enjoy looking at it from afar.
These warehouse prisons are popping up all over the San Bernardino area in California. So many beautiful desert landscapes being demolished for that. The worst part is seeing all the fauna around here being posted on iNaturalist but in spots that are soon going to be covered up with a warehouse. Around the Jurupa hills in riverside county a colony of nearly 13,000 year old palmers oak are being threatened with these concrete prisons. Hate seeing these beautiful lands be destroyed
Thank you for raising awareness on this! I think you should make a petition to save those oaks, 13,000 years old, that's amazing. I wish to know more about it.
every time i go take trips back to places ive lived, i find every secluded area replaced with gas stations and copy+paste condos. i want to vomit. glad to hear such a hopeful outlook at the end there. side note: i loved how during the explanations, everyone was petting dog (:
Love the opening, an homage to capitalism. A "digital retail Center" is code for Amazon. A building identical to that was built about 12 miles from me.
It's far more than just Amazon. There are a bunch of large datacenter companies. Amazon is one, and not the largest. Equinox, century link, qts, Kddi are a few of the dozen largest. All of them chew up land, and waste water too. NSA has a bunch too.
This is awesome. I have been collecting out of the fields around my house just ahead of development. I have collected for transplant 10 to 20 variety of plants every summer for the past 4 years. They all end up in my yard. I don't consider them collected until they return the following year.
I have a field near my house with a tree that is uncommon to my area a Hercules club AKA tooth tree. It may survive a little while it's right on the edge of the roadside median and the property being developed. I would have already tried to take it but my yard is small enough as is. I have to stick with the little flowering guys.
how long really before that land will be sold to a developer? we don't live forever, and your relatives will happily sell it after you are gone. even if you leave it to a land trust, it's no guarantee. the govts change, minds change, and the highest bidder wins. it might be 200 years, but it's sure to happen.
Great video, and great shout out to the folks you featured here and the Native Habitat Project. Thanks! I really appreciate your approach. I work in rail labor (building the tracks). For railroaders to see someone like them sharing awesome knowledge helps bust down barriers to learning more and taking our effect on our environment seriously. You share info like any track gang guy would from Corwith Yard, Clearing, or Proviso Yard. It's great. I work in Nebraska now, near the Sand Hills. It'd be great to see you up there, around the saline marshes around here (getting developed like the limestone prairie in Garland), or up in the sagebrush steppe in the Panhandle. Keep up the great work!
You’re in Texas again , this is a privilege . Thanks for all the info. I’ve seen all these plants and didn’t know limestone prairie could be found no where else in the U. S. (I’ve lived here since 1992 and there was none of this massive development going on even as late as the early 2000’s. ) On my daily walks with my dog through walking trails and parks , you can find an abundance of amazing native flowering plants hidden in the grass or in the taller shrubs growing along the creek .
I've rescued some great native plants from construction sites. Nothing endangered (yet), but all lovely, and all living happily in my xeric flower beds.
For broken tap roots, might you be able to carefully coat the broken area with paraffin wax or something more mild like coconut oil, which is anti bacterial, to seal the broken area only and serve as a barrier to infection etc.? Just thinking.
I am an east Texen from the piney woods. I hate how people are moving here because we are one of the only thriving state left. They are killing our beautiful and fragile land. I am only 40 but the changes make me cry! So I also do my part to plant native. Thanks for the Texas love! If you are heading east swing by Longview. They just cleared some of the oldest farm land to make a …… not sure yet they just tore down all the building and the old trees. Come see where our parking lot is going to be.
The outro was pretty spot on too, heartbreaking how little respect and knowledge people have about the sheer amount of beauty and complexity that real life and ecosystems have. I hope one day very soon people start caring a little more for long term solutions and stop going after the easy money, because when the ecosystem is strong the animals that live on it get stronger too (humans are animals too)
Cars, stores, tecnology and squared houses only with ciment...is missing something...just like good air to breath, plants,mushrooms, butterflyies, bees, Bumblebees,...
You guys are doing great work. We have to try and save whatever we can, it does make a big difference. You and these other gentlemen are heroes to me and many others. Thanks for spreading the word and making entertaining content all these years Joey.
thanks for spotlighting our beautiful limestone prairie here in north texas. It's such an uphill battle to preserve ecologies that aren't mountains and rivers and glaciers and forests. People could look at that lot and just see nothing. Really just BLIND and disconnected from the world. Our city planners are determined to make DFW the most dismal place to live.
The area all over DFW is being covered over by these giant tilt-wall warehouses . DFW has historically been a transportation hub of railroads and later of major interstates. A huge amount of cheap manufactured goods comes from overseas and is shipped up by rail or road from coastal ports. Many of these humongous warehouses serve as distribution points. Besides the major distribution arteries, we have cheap cement from those very limestone deposits and a lot of cheap land and cheap labor. I wonder if in the not-to-distant future the economy shifts slightly and it becomes suddenly cheaper for goods to take a different path and all these warehouses become empty and derelict /// Regarding privet, there has been a long history of planting it long before the advent of big box stores. Farmers have been using them for years for hedges. I have been told that it was customary to plant a hedge of privet around the "privy" aka the outhouse./// I have not found that P cobaea is all that difficult to grow from seed with 30 days of cold treatment in vermiculite. I didn't notice any damping off and had a pretty high success rate on the seedlings.
I have the Missouri primrose (macrocarpa, formerly Missouriensis) in a bunch of different places in my landscaping. Beautiful flowers, super tough, happy to spread, pretty foliage, bright pink stems and silvery-green leaves when it's growing, and of course those visually interesting seed pods. I have it in the little hell strip at the base of my mailbox, surrounded by concrete, no water, no attention besides some cardboard sheet mulching around it to smother the bermuda grass, and it's so happy there and so beautiful. The flowers open up in the evening and almost seem like they're glowing.
Why are developers seemingly invincible?! How in the hell can we stop this shit? I can't even get my own friends and family to watch a 30 seconds tiktok about this shit. god dammit
having the full force of a world economy, every level of government, and local cultural approval behind you does a lot to help when you want to pour some concrete.
Think of it this way, the people who have money are the people who own land. The people who own land need to earn more money to buy more land so they develop it into shitty overpriced rentals. They have this money and spend it in order to pass laws that can help them earn more money. The game is rigged bro
That's tilt-up construction. Looks like nothing's there for about 6-8 months, then over the course of a week, there's a huge building. Source: Me - I worked building these for a bit
Welcome to the area. I'm sorry. Do you have coordinates for the area to save some of the plants? I got a coupla hori knives and some blackland clay prairie yard I'm trying to convert to natives from bermuda grass.
#LoveEarth♥ Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it. The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards. Helen Caldicott
These guys are doing great work! I cut weeds etc from my yard but I don't plant things can't handle the desert. I really don't plant anything in the ground and I let the sage and lavender do their thing. Some neighbors scrape everything and cover the ground with gravel. We are all on wells and the plants help filter the water. Some of these nice people spray Roundup all over their half acre.
Ahaha, 😂, so nice to hear you guys muttering about gulag, when this unique nature around you is being destroyed by the system wildly thirst for profit. Keep it up! 👍 Continue to the next parking lot at another one digital realty center...
I live in Orlando Fl.,where bluebird skies have been replaced by clouds of god knows what ,on a daily basis.WTF is this and what has happened to people that they do not even notice it? Its like havindga five pound tick attached to your neck and you just throw a scarf around it and go on about yourr day.Mind Fin blown!
My family is from the texas plains. The bult environments are mostly hellish and miserable, your intro was delightfully relatable lol. Check out the palo duro canyon next time youre in Texas, its a beautiful oasis of green in the middle of the brown llano estacado
@ 20:23 I thought that WAS wild onion??? Is it not? I've got a pretty good size patch of those growing over here in my yard. They're one of my favorites! I've also got one that looks the same, except it has pinkish tinge in the petals. Which I thought was a wild type of garlic. But I could be wrong, I'm no botonist! I'm in Central Tx, down South a bit from where you are in this video, in The Hill Country. However, I did grow up quite near Garland. And you're right, Texas DOES love to build a good size parking lot! Sadly, I've watched Texas land turn into pavement for decades. It's all very depressing imo. I wish I were with y'all during this filming, I could easily help out with a place to grow everything they're saving. Even though my soil is a little bit different than that of North Texas, we have less blackland prairie, and more whole limestone rocks in our soil. But the white "roadbase", or crushed up limestone for topsoil is still very prevalent here too. So I'm very sure all those plants would happily grow here. I did not know how difficult it is to grow the penstemons! That penstemon inflorescence looks a lot like the one I've seen growing around here that has the common name of Hill Country Penstemon. Again, one of my favorites!! And it's hard to find for sale. But then, I've never met a penstemon I DIDN'T like!!!
Bulldozed and scraped down to only be filled with junk filler. Breaks my mind to see the black land prairie soil hauled off 🤯 Living between two eco regions the Black Land Prairies and Edwards Plateau you see the landscape transition within just 2-3 miles. TX 1604 and 151 are being leveled with no end in sight!
For those plants with underground storage organs the most successful method to translocate them is to remove all above ground parts then to plant them directly into the position they are to be translocated to. Water once to settle in. They will resprout once they have developed enough roots to survive. When planting out nursery grown plants to get best results remove all above ground grow plant and water once. Again they will produce leaves once they have developed a good root system
Sweet so you have a 107 drone pilot license. I didn't even get 150 days in before I lost my drone. I hope you eventually tour that huge-rock wall in Montana. It is on private property & known as the boneyard for having endless prehistoric bones from the massive floods in the end of the ice age. Literally thousands of even mammoth bones in Montana & adjacent to federal wilderness.
The variety of accents was just as entertaining as the video itself
And the Asian guy has the cleanest English as well 😂
I visited family in Odessa, TX and they were so excited to show me "how big the city has gotten" and all I could think was, "I get that this whole landscape is hellish, but why do all the new buildings have to be hideous too?"
Yee Effin Haw
Every time I fly to Dallas or Houston I look down and feel like I'm in a wierd dystopian sci-fi movie.
@@OutboundShaneI mean, there's a good reason Robocop was filmed in Dallas......
When you're on a roll, you're on a roll.
I just flew out of Odessa last January. All I have to say is how badly laid out everything and roads are there. Truly a travesty
Yo Joey, thanks for your work. Publicise these plant rescue ops ahead of time. There are a number of us plant rehabilitators out here who are game, knowledgeable and retired(mobile easily). I would like to help. We need to sell the idea of planting these natives in the beds of the eyesore buildings.
I love these urban plant guerrillas and the native plant nurseries you visit! These people are doing good work to save our planet!! ❤❤❤
People that are trying to prevent having nothing left, tremendous respect.
@@lemonyskunkketts7781 ❤❤❤
My favorite videos of yours are when you're interacting with other botanists. But I still love the solo ranting and cussing at lawns and parking lots, don't get me wrong!
This channel rules. This is better than any TV show.
That's a very, very low bar.
@@whatilearnttoday5295speaking of crap....11/30/23 prime time tv latest, greatest low... The real WALT Disney is turning in his grave!
The amount of habitat destruction in Texas and especially DFW is disgusting. Born and raised here so I can say it. I know Randy Johnson and appreciate his knowledge and love for native plants! Thanks for the work you're all doing to educate people.
A customer of mine turned me onto your channel. Texas is so lucky to have you here. Hopefully one day I will be treated to a Cross Timbers vid from you, either way, I have learned so much from you. Thank you so much.
I too appreciate the cross timbers.
Man Randy is so dope. He was on This Old House I think and he helped a guy build a pollinator garden in his backyard. That's awesome
Got a link for that?
@@TheBakuganelite th-cam.com/video/yuLsUoLC48g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5unwZvtDFoMvw2gx
@@TheBakuganelite 2nded I would watch that
th-cam.com/video/yuLsUoLC48g/w-d-xo.html
Name of his FB page, in case YT erases the link.
Randy Johnson Organics
Spent half a century in D/FW area. The introduction is f'ing SPOT ON.
Tony you have no idea how well you got that 100% correct for all the states
Who the fuck is Tony?
@@tomhomunculus On his older videos he went by the name Tony Santoro.
The crazy thing is that this hideous construction is going on in even places that are not growing in population. I'm originally from Louisiana and in the population stagnant area of Houma all these clone tract houses are popping up like crazy.
@@OutboundShane
Thank you
@@OutboundShane
I knew I wasn't going crazy 🤣
The culture as a whole is suffering from insanity.
culturecide
American culture is ruining the world
Thanks for all the recent texas plants videos so I can be on the look out
I'm sure that everyone else here is also just in awe of the integrity and passion of these guys, knowledgeable, open, and still humble and humorous in the face of such habitat destruction. Massive respect for you guys doing what you're doing, so good to know you'd be doing it anyway without a camera in your face. Fantastic.
Very well spoken and intelligent young man you shared this waltz with; along with the older chap, as well! Great video. Illuminating as well.
Completely agree
You were hangin' with two good humans!
Scraping building sites was an idea I had back in the eighties.
Didn't work out for me but I'd encourage anyone to pursue that business model!
Hey, I live in Garland! Your words cut deep; deep and true.
I grew up less >20 mins from Garland. every time I go back to visit my hometown my heart just breaks just remembering the grassy fields sprawling in every direction, especially outside my grandparents' home. newer homes are towering and shoved close together, walking through a neighborhood is like being surrounded by prison walls to keep nature "outside". you can't see anything beyond them. additionally, there is an awfully large amount of crap being developed over there- just hostile, thoughtless and stupid ugly crap. just its difficult to visit while remembering how it was. off HWY 78 on the way into town there's a known hill where bluebonnets flower and on top of it they built a big ugly SPECS.
Just heartbreaking…only greedy developers and the dollar seems to thrive in Texas nowadays
Florida, same. :/
My husband is from Garland and said “He nailed it.” Please come to Costa Rica! (More specifically Santa Teresa because we have unchecked growth and a lot of soil and plant life being destroyed in an area that is rare dry rainforest) but it’s no Garland that’s for sure! It’s still very beautiful here.
This area has some really cool plants, it's sad to see it slated for destruction. I was at this site a few months back when several local groups got together for a rescue mission, primarily targeting Dalea hallii. We were able to collect several hundred plants, but there is so much more still there. I collected some specimens of the Yucca, Liatris and Penstemon, and they are now part of my landscape in Dallas. It really is a shame that so many of these plants get completely looked over, they make WAY better landscape plants than the garbage that's available at most nursery's and big box stores.
Randy has a perfect Texan voice and accent
The intro is the best thing I've ever heard and seen.
If it's verbatim 'Digital Realty', it's gonna be a datacenter, i.e a node where internet provider infrastructure meets to be able to connect to each other, sorta like a telephone exchange if you know what that is.
These guests are great humans! I grew up in FL with lots of nature. Now it's wall to wall concrete and landscaped stuff that isn't native. Wish I knew then what I know now. I'd have been a happy nature guerilla. Save those plants and ecosystems!! ❤
Great video, your co-hosts are entertaining!
Great work rescuing those plants guys. We're probably doomed through climate change or war, but let's hope all these plants live on! 💚
We ain't doomed lol imagine thinking humans are that important they can end everything 😂 nah we can't even exterminate ourselves, or we would've by now.
@@notstrong5789
Don’t be so impatient, the shitstorm hasn’t even started.
Your botanist friends are just as unique yet convergently evolved towards BANGER PLANTS
Thank you for bringing attention to this matter
❤ Great work by the botanists,
But I can't comment on the planners or architects or the comment gets removed......
Damn Privet there too! It's as bad as the human tumor. I'm quite upset with most humans, thanks for being the good kind. Excellent collaboration Joey.
I 2nd that emotion on the Ligustrum (aka privet).
It's taking over my small Texas town right this minute!
Truly, it's an evil plant here in our country!! (It's from Japan & has nothing here to stop it.)
Their leaves make their own glyphosate (aka Round Up weed killer) and I've seen the ligustrum roots literally wrapped around other tree roots to kill them off.
I saw a nice big oak tree, with a trunk 2 feet across,
surrounded by a stand of privet,
the oak is loosing.
Those murderous plants are blatantly killing it !
I've been doing what I can to save the oak, but I'm not sure it's going to work, might be too late...
But I won't stop trying!!!
The really stupid thing is the nurseries STILL SELL IT to homeowners all over the state!!!
And there aren't any warnings that come with it either.
I hate going anywhere near Dallas, but i don't have any work tomorrow so im going out there to see what i can save.
I think those Osage oranges are what we called horse apples when I was a kid. They had latex in the outer layer and fuzzy stuff around the seeds in the center, and weren't good for anything except throwing at other kids or random stuff like fire hydrants. Some kids threw them at cars but that latex might hurt paint, idk. My favorite thing to throw them at was wooden fence-posts with a barb-wire fence, and if a chunk got stuck on a barb that was extra points.
Horse Apples!! IKR!!! 😂😂😂
Osage oranges are apparently edible, or at least their seeds are. Not sure if it’s worth the effort of extracting them.
I know every plant & fruit has a purpose.
However, as a suburban kid in America, the most, no, the ONLY use we ever got out of them was having fun throwing them at each other!!
As a side note, I very much like the shape of those old trees.
They're pretty cool looking when they get quite big.
They have a nice umbrella shape canapy that looks pleasant from far away.
And up close, with the branches bending down to the ground from the weight of their big fruits, that creates a natural club house type of space under that canapy.
And usually, the branches are so heavily leafed that people can't see inside the club house when you're in it!
As a kid, I really liked those trees.
As an adult (sadly) I just enjoy looking at it from afar.
Before you even mentioned it, I thought that soil looked like it would smell amazing. Probably makes a delightful crunch when you walk on it, too.
These warehouse prisons are popping up all over the San Bernardino area in California. So many beautiful desert landscapes being demolished for that. The worst part is seeing all the fauna around here being posted on iNaturalist but in spots that are soon going to be covered up with a warehouse. Around the Jurupa hills in riverside county a colony of nearly 13,000 year old palmers oak are being threatened with these concrete prisons. Hate seeing these beautiful lands be destroyed
Thank you for raising awareness on this! I think you should make a petition to save those oaks, 13,000 years old, that's amazing. I wish to know more about it.
every time i go take trips back to places ive lived, i find every secluded area replaced with gas stations and copy+paste condos. i want to vomit. glad to hear such a hopeful outlook at the end there.
side note: i loved how during the explanations, everyone was petting dog (:
Love the opening, an homage to capitalism.
A "digital retail Center" is code for Amazon.
A building identical to that was built about 12 miles from me.
Disgusting, blocky, soul sucking abominations. These places are the embodiment of the soulless white collars that design them.
It's far more than just Amazon. There are a bunch of large datacenter companies. Amazon is one, and not the largest.
Equinox, century link, qts, Kddi are a few of the dozen largest. All of them chew up land, and waste water too.
NSA has a bunch too.
This is awesome. I have been collecting out of the fields around my house just ahead of development. I have collected for transplant 10 to 20 variety of plants every summer for the past 4 years. They all end up in my yard. I don't consider them collected until they return the following year.
I have a field near my house with a tree that is uncommon to my area a Hercules club AKA tooth tree. It may survive a little while it's right on the edge of the roadside median and the property being developed. I would have already tried to take it but my yard is small enough as is. I have to stick with the little flowering guys.
Y'all puttin' in work on this channel. Earth work 🌎
I have property east of there if they ever need somewhere to just plant a bunch of crap and see what happens.
❤ you can be doing a great thing,,, please contact the two botanists and ask if you can help!!❤
Right on, get it done!
how long really before that land will be sold to a developer? we don't live forever, and your relatives will happily sell it after you are gone. even if you leave it to a land trust, it's no guarantee. the govts change, minds change, and the highest bidder wins. it might be 200 years, but it's sure to happen.
Please send joey one of them new fangled electronic mails
@@bobs5596 Ugh, I hate when people say things like this. What, should he do nothing?
Depressing and encouraging at the same time!
You're like fricking Jonny Appleseed! Thanks for sharing your insights. PS loved when you found that giant turtle in Chicago.
Great video, and great shout out to the folks you featured here and the Native Habitat Project. Thanks!
I really appreciate your approach. I work in rail labor (building the tracks). For railroaders to see someone like them sharing awesome knowledge helps bust down barriers to learning more and taking our effect on our environment seriously. You share info like any track gang guy would from Corwith Yard, Clearing, or Proviso Yard. It's great.
I work in Nebraska now, near the Sand Hills. It'd be great to see you up there, around the saline marshes around here (getting developed like the limestone prairie in Garland), or up in the sagebrush steppe in the Panhandle.
Keep up the great work!
You’re in Texas again , this is a privilege . Thanks for all the info. I’ve seen all these plants and didn’t know limestone prairie could be found no where else in the U. S. (I’ve lived here since 1992 and there was none of this massive development going on even as late as the early 2000’s. ) On my daily walks with my dog through walking trails and parks , you can find an abundance of amazing native flowering plants hidden in the grass or in the taller shrubs growing along the creek .
I've rescued some great native plants from construction sites. Nothing endangered (yet), but all lovely, and all living happily in my xeric flower beds.
I can't watch this, it makes me too upset. Tony, Akash,Randy you are a heros.
For broken tap roots, might you be able to carefully coat the broken area with paraffin wax or something more mild like coconut oil, which is anti bacterial, to seal the broken area only and serve as a barrier to infection etc.? Just thinking.
I heard that aloe helps roots, but haven't tested that on my plants.
As a Texas native seeing the habitat destruction makes me appreciate the availability of tannerite at academy outdoors
As someone in DFW, the intro murdered me
I genuinely appreciate you telling it like it is in The Land of Gar. Slow sinking regret for sure. Nice work saving some plants !
My boyfriend lives in Garland and I was dying laughing at all the spot on roasts. Well played sir.
Tell your boyfriend to get off his sorry ass and spend an afternoon rescuing plants nice
I am an east Texen from the piney woods. I hate how people are moving here because we are one of the only thriving state left. They are killing our beautiful and fragile land. I am only 40 but the changes make me cry! So I also do my part to plant native. Thanks for the Texas love! If you are heading east swing by Longview. They just cleared some of the oldest farm land to make a …… not sure yet they just tore down all the building and the old trees. Come see where our parking lot is going to be.
The intro hurts it's so true
"Hyuck hyuck welcum to Garland! 🤗 ❤" I'm dying
The outro was pretty spot on too, heartbreaking how little respect and knowledge people have about the sheer amount of beauty and complexity that real life and ecosystems have. I hope one day very soon people start caring a little more for long term solutions and stop going after the easy money, because when the ecosystem is strong the animals that live on it get stronger too (humans are animals too)
Knowing spiranthes are getting demolished makes me want to cry a bit. It's the plant that got me into plant.
Chamber of Tourism for Garland TX will love this! LOL. Someone should send it to them. Texas does love their cement boxes and walls...
Another fantastic intro. My deepest respect.
Cars, stores, tecnology and squared houses only with ciment...is missing something...just like good air to breath, plants,mushrooms, butterflyies, bees, Bumblebees,...
The intro 😂
💔 This was hard to watch…Thank you to these eco-heroes!
You guys are doing great work. We have to try and save whatever we can, it does make a big difference. You and these other gentlemen are heroes to me and many others. Thanks for spreading the word and making entertaining content all these years Joey.
I love the enthusiasm
Thx Tony
Love my unauthorized hoodie
The folding technique.. nice.
Come down to Houston! I want to learn some cool places to go to for this, and you seem to always find them. Plenty of destruction down here
thanks for spotlighting our beautiful limestone prairie here in north texas. It's such an uphill battle to preserve ecologies that aren't mountains and rivers and glaciers and forests. People could look at that lot and just see nothing. Really just BLIND and disconnected from the world. Our city planners are determined to make DFW the most dismal place to live.
The area all over DFW is being covered over by these giant tilt-wall warehouses . DFW has historically been a transportation hub of railroads and later of major interstates. A huge amount of cheap manufactured goods comes from overseas and is shipped up by rail or road from coastal ports. Many of these humongous warehouses serve as distribution points. Besides the major distribution arteries, we have cheap cement from those very limestone deposits and a lot of cheap land and cheap labor. I wonder if in the not-to-distant future the economy shifts slightly and it becomes suddenly cheaper for goods to take a different path and all these warehouses become empty and derelict /// Regarding privet, there has been a long history of planting it long before the advent of big box stores. Farmers have been using them for years for hedges. I have been told that it was customary to plant a hedge of privet around the "privy" aka the outhouse./// I have not found that P cobaea is all that difficult to grow from seed with 30 days of cold treatment in vermiculite. I didn't notice any damping off and had a pretty high success rate on the seedlings.
I have the Missouri primrose (macrocarpa, formerly Missouriensis) in a bunch of different places in my landscaping. Beautiful flowers, super tough, happy to spread, pretty foliage, bright pink stems and silvery-green leaves when it's growing, and of course those visually interesting seed pods. I have it in the little hell strip at the base of my mailbox, surrounded by concrete, no water, no attention besides some cardboard sheet mulching around it to smother the bermuda grass, and it's so happy there and so beautiful. The flowers open up in the evening and almost seem like they're glowing.
I’m addicted to the way you mix geology in with the botany it’s awesome! Best of both worlds
Now you're poking around my area! Hope you got to check out the big trees in the Spring Creek preserve.
Why are developers seemingly invincible?! How in the hell can we stop this shit? I can't even get my own friends and family to watch a 30 seconds tiktok about this shit. god dammit
Because property developers are extremely active in local and state elections, and no one else is
It's so depressing and defeating. @@PlutoRoman
having the full force of a world economy, every level of government, and local cultural approval behind you does a lot to help when you want to pour some concrete.
Think of it this way, the people who have money are the people who own land. The people who own land need to earn more money to buy more land so they develop it into shitty overpriced rentals. They have this money and spend it in order to pass laws that can help them earn more money. The game is rigged bro
the elected officials (govt) are the enemy. never forget that.
You're doin' good work, Joey!!!
That intro... *Chefs kiss*
LOL, that intro was 10/10, please more bits like that!
That's tilt-up construction. Looks like nothing's there for about 6-8 months, then over the course of a week, there's a huge building. Source: Me - I worked building these for a bit
Welcome to the area. I'm sorry. Do you have coordinates for the area to save some of the plants? I got a coupla hori knives and some blackland clay prairie yard I'm trying to convert to natives from bermuda grass.
#LoveEarth♥
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.
The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.
Helen Caldicott
These guys are doing great work! I cut weeds etc from my yard but I don't plant things can't handle the desert. I really don't plant anything in the ground and I let the sage and lavender do their thing. Some neighbors scrape everything and cover the ground with gravel. We are all on wells and the plants help filter the water. Some of these nice people spray Roundup all over their half acre.
How can I say this... You guys are the best and from the bottom of my heart, I love you.
Looks like Chicago Il burbs - warehouse-wise.
they build to make it shoplifter/burglar-proof.
Ahaha, 😂, so nice to hear you guys muttering about gulag, when this unique nature around you is being destroyed by the system wildly thirst for profit. Keep it up! 👍 Continue to the next parking lot at another one digital realty center...
I love how Akash speaks like an audio encyclopedia.
I live in Orlando Fl.,where bluebird skies have been replaced by clouds of god knows what ,on a daily basis.WTF is this and what has happened to people that they do not even notice it? Its like havindga five pound tick attached to your neck and you just throw a scarf around it and go on about yourr day.Mind Fin blown!
I'm constantly amazed that people don't notice 😢
I fucking love that intro
Much of silicon valley CA tech industry relocate to texas, for business purposes
Dude the way you shit on infrastructure is gold
Thanks for the info on regrid.
My family is from the texas plains. The bult environments are mostly hellish and miserable, your intro was delightfully relatable lol. Check out the palo duro canyon next time youre in Texas, its a beautiful oasis of green in the middle of the brown llano estacado
@ 20:23 I thought that WAS wild onion???
Is it not?
I've got a pretty good size patch of those growing over here in my yard.
They're one of my favorites!
I've also got one that looks the same, except it has pinkish tinge in the petals.
Which I thought was a wild type of garlic.
But I could be wrong, I'm no botonist!
I'm in Central Tx, down South a bit from where you are in this video, in The Hill Country.
However, I did grow up quite near Garland.
And you're right, Texas DOES love to build a good size parking lot!
Sadly, I've watched Texas land turn into pavement for decades.
It's all very depressing imo.
I wish I were with y'all during this filming, I could easily help out with a place to grow everything they're saving.
Even though my soil is a little bit different than that of North Texas, we have less blackland prairie, and more whole limestone rocks in our soil.
But the white "roadbase", or crushed up limestone for topsoil is still very prevalent here too.
So I'm very sure all those plants would happily grow here.
I did not know how difficult it is to grow the penstemons!
That penstemon inflorescence looks a lot like the one I've seen growing around here that has the common name of Hill Country Penstemon.
Again, one of my favorites!!
And it's hard to find for sale.
But then, I've never met a penstemon I DIDN'T like!!!
Bulldozed and scraped down to only be filled with junk filler. Breaks my mind to see the black land prairie soil hauled off 🤯 Living between two eco regions the Black Land Prairies and Edwards Plateau you see the landscape transition within just 2-3 miles. TX 1604 and 151 are being leveled with no end in sight!
Glad to know how to make a paper seed envelope❤❤thank you
I FRIGGIN ADORE YOUR HUMOR!!!! Keep keepin on. you da best!
Akash sharing the Grid app has been a lifesaver. Thanks Akash!
Love this! Nice work
That intro was fucking perfect.
For those plants with underground storage organs the most successful method to translocate them is to remove all above ground parts then to plant them directly into the position they are to be translocated to. Water once to settle in. They will resprout once they have developed enough roots to survive. When planting out nursery grown plants to get best results remove all above ground grow plant and water once. Again they will produce leaves once they have developed a good root system
Botanists are really cool people
Sweet so you have a 107 drone pilot license. I didn't even get 150 days in before I lost my drone. I hope you eventually tour that huge-rock wall in Montana. It is on private property & known as the boneyard for having endless prehistoric bones from the massive floods in the end of the ice age. Literally thousands of even mammoth bones in Montana & adjacent to federal wilderness.
You and your team are stars ❤
I feel like Lubbock, Texas is going through the same thing and it’s heartbreaking to watch.
I'd volunteer some yard space, but I don't have limestone soil over here in east Fort Worth.
Go grab some dirt from near the fossil river! Its right down the road
try some privet, it grows wild everywhere....
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OMG - NOOOO!!!
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Ok, so you're just kidding.
I get it now.
You GOT me!! 😂
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You just think you don't,
but it IS under there!!
Priceless intro.