I was arrested in the late 90s for planting a traffic circle in Seattle. They confiscated a trowel, vegetable seeds, a pair of work gloves, and tulip bulbs. Cop was definitely into lawns and had me booked. Back then I was part of a gardening outreach and people started calling the District Attorney who dropped the charges. Fun times and I'll always be a guerilla gardener.
@@andrewgraves4026 it got returned to me in a sealed evidence bag... 😂 cameras and phones weren't everywhere back then, but I think the bag may be in my memoirs. I'd love to have the picture of me against the blue car with the trowel on the hood and everything else. When I was in the holding cell people were laughing at me for being in for that. It was my first time getting arrested. The thing was I ran a small landscape business and did charity work, rescued plants from places where homes were being torn down- people knew me and that guy's phone was ringing because a neighbor who saw me getting arrested worked for Seattle Times. It was grest to be young and able to do things like that. Life is beautiful.
The video of you on the scooter checking on trees you planted was the first video I've seen of you. I vibed with that. Also I was born in Oakland, fruitvale.
bark dust is 100% the enemy of people and pets on several levels, but being almost impossible to get the fleas out of and breathing any of that in when it's being dumped or whatever makes me try to find ground covers that will accumulate and turn into dirt :-) there are lots of cat and dog friendly grasses that would be great to have more people growing instead of yet more weird hybrids that is great for grass but not so great for anything else. Can't walk barefoot through it or splinters, if you trip and fall into it you're gonna be itchy, there's so much wrong with a lot of artificial ground covers..
Hey man! I wanted to say thank you for inspiring me to guerilla garden around my city. As an arborist it kills me to only see arborvitaes and crepe myrtles in my town. After seeing it was possible I've been starting my own seed from wild natives to plant around!
This takes me back to the old days, when you used to teach us the plant Ecology of concrete, Garbage and Urine. #195 My personal favorite. The commentary was phenomenal. I can tell you one thing that area misses you.
My favorite video of you ever. I have had many guerilla gardens in my hometown and have had to battle the ignorant grassholes and boomers many times as well.
Two main ones are destroying every available open area of land they can get their greedy, shit-covered hands on in my area. A HUGE FUCK YOU to Lock Richards and Sperry Real Estate in Nevada County CA. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 Find stairs and take a dive.
Real estate agents are lawn pushers....They love Kentucky blue grass sod in front and backyards. Kill your lawns then plant locally endemic native trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, and annuals.
THIS is when i went from lurker to follower. The real estate c*nt era. I spent time in Oakland and I loved the illegal planting operation you had going. So good to revisit the hood!
Having worked in landscaping for a while now, I have found that the best way to selectively and permanently get rid of an invasive tree or shrub is to take a regular cordless drill, drill a hole to the centre of the stem, and then inject an herbicide of your choice (I have found that glyphosate works best for me for most plants). After a few weeks to months, you should remove the stem, or at least the part you injected, and put it in the residual waste (do not compost to avoid herbicide contamination).
I feel really inspired seeing all of these videos, I started illegally planting thing on my neighborhood a couple of years ago and I can already see little results, can’t wait to see the 18-20 trees i’ve planted so far in 10 or 20 years.
I was just talking about the guerrilla gardening today and how I learned there were others doing it from this channel! Thanks for the update!!! How awesome to see the trees still growing! ❤
I'm just beginning to tend to a few public spots... it makes me feel really good to hear you pointing to stuff you planted 15 years ago. Gives me some hope and more bolstered determination. Our natural spaces in my metropolis is basically only escaped landscaping plants, and trees. Sorry state. Trying to change that. 🍉✌️
Note as I reach the 7:45 mark in the video: Ailanthus altissima is a host for spotted lanternfly which is a highly problematic species for orchards and vineyards. Definitely worth removing the trees if you'd like to help stop the spread of the lanternfly.
I was in the Navy right around here about 40 years ago. The whole base is gone now, turned into a commercial port. But I also have fond memories of tripping balls on acid up on the roof, although on a different building, about a mile away.
So that was you that planted all these beautiful natives. I appreciate you man, beautifying Oakland and preserving endangered species. I love a good agave haha. Thank you bro for everything you do, especially in my beloved hometown here.
At 7:24 that "Tree of Heaven" in a nightmare in Chicago and its suburbs. Tends to overseed, finds places to grow even in alleys and along the EL train. if you see one growing cut it down all the way. It takes over too easily. It secretes a substance from it's root system to keep any other trees from growing near it. It is the only non native tree in the US I hate!
Glad you did that for the city & that there are still some survivors. The natives look so much better than the sh*t the city plants. I love your "Ask for forgiveness rather than permission"--so true!!
Welcome back man. I’m sorry about the M.I.A. median plants. I tried my best to keep things going but water got shutoff everywhere and totally got overpowered.
Well done. Always good to go back and see what happened. Guerrilla planting gives me a rush. Seed balls, volunteer trees and locals I have planted wherever I have lived. I have to plant two Red Northern Oaks near a clearing by 64. Keep being a PITA.
I really enjoyed the old videos from Oakland and Berkeley; they really opened my eyes to what was in front of me my whole life and got me interested in ecology.
Those f'n cranes that reminded you of 'Star Wars'-yup, reminded this old gal of 'War of the Worlds'(70's album). Used to have a russian olive tree similar to that one. That beauty blue flowering cacti looks intriguing. Appreciate your knowledge, renegade nature and sarcasm. Thanks from a humble Canadian gardener.
You mentioned araucaria, those are all cool imo. That Fabaceae is crazy, i probably wouldn't have been able to identify it as such with the upside-down flowers. Love the mallows. The blue flower bromeliad is totally nuts. Banger video as always my man.
You have pretty much created a small forest if you put all plants together. Also, your chanel has become a therapy sort of thing. The only chanel I check daily, even though I have Alert on. Also, being in India where people are everywhere, I hardly see anybody on your roads, just vehicles! Probably saw less than a dozen people on foot!
I took the train to visit the Berkeley Botanical Garden the other day inspired by your recent video. Too bad I was pooped by the time I made it there without realizing there was a shuttle from the campus up the hill where the garden is. I'll plan better and go back soon. I noticed a lot of the succulents had died back from some kind of disease or chemical attack - Hopefully they get to the bottom of that. I planned to pepper the road dividers here in Davis with "California Native" seeds from the local big box store. Should I trust the label or ditch those you think?
They don't let them use chemicals anymore so all the cacti and succulents got attacked by mites and scale, which they would not otherwise encounter in habitat
Nice to see so many Butano cypress. I was up there after the CZU Fire and it was heartbreaking to see them all scorched. Only time will tell how the population recovers.
Nice to come back to this place. It is where I started watching your videos. Couldn't believe the knowledge this goomba could spout out without a break. Amazing work and I hope you can continue to inspire more people to do stuff like this for many more years.
Hard to believe (well, maybe not, all things considered) there were coast redwoods from the Bay Area all the way north past Crescent City turn of last century.
Plants are needed in this world as our lives totally depend on them and as such should be accorded respect. When I was child ,trees impressed me as being very beautiful and now in my 60s trees still are beautiful to me but people not so much .
I caught myself just "listening" while shaping a ditch on my property... when he says the scientific names it's crazy relaxing! Along with the stories ta boot!, it's great for listening/learning even more than watchin. No homo... 😁
well I’m sure that’s not why people in the western U.S that put a layer of painted wood mulch with landscape fabric under it and no plants choose to landscape like that 😂 but fair enough.
@@oscarflip8561 Everyone knows what to do when life gives you lemons. But when life gives you suburban shopping mall hellscapes, make Psilocybe cyanescens.
I'd like to see you botanize the crack plants of the Mission District. Behind the old Lucca Ravioli there was chamomile miraculously growing in thick mats out of the concrete.
7:00 Acacia melanoxylon may have been an unpleasant introduction from down under, but the North America got them back in spades with the scourge of Neltuma glandulosa (formerly of Prosopis) as well as various Opuntias. I have a suspicion some cattle trader hit on the bright idea of bringing a couple of mesquite pods over with a shipment of cows. "Hey check these out, back in Texas the cows eat the shit out of these trees. They like the green pods a lot. Plus the wood is great for barbecuing." Australian rancher: "Mate, what does barbecuing mean?"
Any tree over 18 inches in diameter is protected in CA. They would need a permit to remove (although the ease of getting such a permit varies widely). I love seeing the California Buckeye. I propagate that tree. I'm trying to get ppl to replace Japanese Maples and crepe myrtles with California Buckeyes.
He has a video on how he started self-studying science and botany later in life. He recommends some of the books he used. Never too late in life to start learning something new
How'd you get the space to grow all these out? From the sound of it you probably had a shitty little place with barely any outdoor space when you worked at the trainyard unless you got real lucky, but you were able to get trees in all over the place. I'd love to do the same but I'm running out of room already
Have you read any of toby hemenways "retuning to an idea" if so from an invasion biologist do you think about the view of invasives being an idea of human formality of what we think should be there.
8:35 If sargentii can only grow in sepentine soils, what explains its ability to establish here? Is it that it can technically _survive,_ but not thrive and expand outside of its endemic zone? Im still trying to wrap my head around that concept with species boundaries
Really enjoy your enthusiasm with Botany and the microbial system, going through all the tree's ya have planted in the past, good to see that our Aussie tree's/bushes are invading you guys as bad as some US tree's/bushes have invaded us!😂🙌
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I was arrested in the late 90s for planting a traffic circle in Seattle. They confiscated a trowel, vegetable seeds, a pair of work gloves, and tulip bulbs.
Cop was definitely into lawns and had me booked.
Back then I was part of a gardening outreach and people started calling the District Attorney who dropped the charges.
Fun times and I'll always be a guerilla gardener.
The opposite story of Alice's Restaurant.
You hardened criminal, you! 😤
(/s, if it's not obvious) 😉😆
people and their power trips man... 🙄
Lolol thanks for taking one for the team. I want a photo of the trowel tagged in the evidence room.
@@andrewgraves4026 it got returned to me in a sealed evidence bag... 😂 cameras and phones weren't everywhere back then, but I think the bag may be in my memoirs.
I'd love to have the picture of me against the blue car with the trowel on the hood and everything else.
When I was in the holding cell people were laughing at me for being in for that. It was my first time getting arrested. The thing was I ran a small landscape business and did charity work, rescued plants from places where homes were being torn down- people knew me and that guy's phone was ringing because a neighbor who saw me getting arrested worked for Seattle Times.
It was grest to be young and able to do things like that. Life is beautiful.
The video of you on the scooter checking on trees you planted was the first video I've seen of you. I vibed with that. Also I was born in Oakland, fruitvale.
Same, that was the first video I ever found and have been watching ever since
Also same. Watching ever since. Cheers from Calgary, AB.
Pretty sure this was the first video of yours i watched, so lovely to see these plants still going
Same here, and it's still one of my favorites too
wtf you talking about this is his latest video
@@X6X9X13 He did a video in this neighborhood a few years back.
I don't understand how people think dead grass, mulch, or total abandonment looks better than simply planting some native bushes..
Just said the same thing. It’s unfathomable!
bark dust is 100% the enemy of people and pets on several levels, but being almost impossible to get the fleas out of and breathing any of that in when it's being dumped or whatever makes me try to find ground covers that will accumulate and turn into dirt :-) there are lots of cat and dog friendly grasses that would be great to have more people growing instead of yet more weird hybrids that is great for grass but not so great for anything else.
Can't walk barefoot through it or splinters, if you trip and fall into it you're gonna be itchy, there's so much wrong with a lot of artificial ground covers..
Hey man! I wanted to say thank you for inspiring me to guerilla garden around my city. As an arborist it kills me to only see arborvitaes and crepe myrtles in my town. After seeing it was possible I've been starting my own seed from wild natives to plant around!
This takes me back to the old days, when you used to teach us the plant Ecology of concrete, Garbage and Urine. #195 My personal favorite. The commentary was phenomenal. I can tell you one thing that area misses you.
It's so wild to see all these trees that you planted long ago thriving.
We need a local to get this real estate agent pulling her hair out again over the fact that native plants are being planted on the median again...
i volenteer as tribute
We need a local to pull this real estate agent out of this reality.
My favorite video of you ever. I have had many guerilla gardens in my hometown and have had to battle the ignorant grassholes and boomers many times as well.
"grassholes" 😅😅😅👍
Brilliant!
You have skills I lack - but I'm working on it 😅
Hey! This "boomer" wants to garden everywhere possible!
@@sharonrwilson2727
Nothing like being ageist unless you show it.
Real estate agents really are the worst.
With a language all their own lol
Two main ones are destroying every available open area of land they can get their greedy, shit-covered hands on in my area. A HUGE FUCK YOU to Lock Richards and Sperry Real Estate in Nevada County CA. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 Find stairs and take a dive.
Real estate agents are lawn pushers....They love Kentucky blue grass sod in front and backyards.
Kill your lawns then plant locally endemic native trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, and annuals.
the death cult can't be helped hey
Really bad, especially when they get a hard-on for you… mingue!
THIS is when i went from lurker to follower. The real estate c*nt era. I spent time in Oakland and I loved the illegal planting operation you had going. So good to revisit the hood!
Having worked in landscaping for a while now, I have found that the best way to selectively and permanently get rid of an invasive tree or shrub is to take a regular cordless drill, drill a hole to the centre of the stem, and then inject an herbicide of your choice (I have found that glyphosate works best for me for most plants). After a few weeks to months, you should remove the stem, or at least the part you injected, and put it in the residual waste (do not compost to avoid herbicide contamination).
Look how much did survive. Good on ya.
I'm a partly retired (bad foot) landscaper in the East Bay. You inspire me.
I feel really inspired seeing all of these videos, I started illegally planting thing on my neighborhood a couple of years ago and I can already see little results, can’t wait to see the 18-20 trees i’ve planted so far in 10 or 20 years.
I actually re-watched the old video again on wednesday, and then you make an update now a few days later. That is awesome.
I was just talking about the guerrilla gardening today and how I learned there were others doing it from this channel! Thanks for the update!!! How awesome to see the trees still growing! ❤
Dude, you deserve sainthood + the Nobel pitchfork !
I'm just beginning to tend to a few public spots... it makes me feel really good to hear you pointing to stuff you planted 15 years ago. Gives me some hope and more bolstered determination. Our natural spaces in my metropolis is basically only escaped landscaping plants, and trees. Sorry state. Trying to change that. 🍉✌️
Oh man, I subscribed on a video about this place. How time flies.
+1. Inspired me to go on a guerilla gardening quest of my own.
Thanks plant Jesus
Nice to see some stuff doing well, thanks for all you do GFYS 😊
Note as I reach the 7:45 mark in the video: Ailanthus altissima is a host for spotted lanternfly which is a highly problematic species for orchards and vineyards. Definitely worth removing the trees if you'd like to help stop the spread of the lanternfly.
I was in the Navy right around here about 40 years ago. The whole base is gone now, turned into a commercial port. But I also have fond memories of tripping balls on acid up on the roof, although on a different building, about a mile away.
Ur the goat dude, thank u for all u do
So that was you that planted all these beautiful natives. I appreciate you man, beautifying Oakland and preserving endangered species. I love a good agave haha. Thank you bro for everything you do, especially in my beloved hometown here.
Yea nice going lady I’m sure everyone likes to see the barren landscape instead of a landscape full of color and beautiful plants
At 7:24 that "Tree of Heaven" in a nightmare in Chicago and its suburbs. Tends to overseed, finds places to grow even in
alleys and along the EL train. if you see one growing cut it down all the way. It takes over too easily. It secretes a
substance from it's root system to keep any other trees from growing near it. It is the only non native tree in the US I hate!
"May have been taken" 😂 🤣 Never admit that tell them/us you "Liberated it" 😉
That video was how I found your channel. Fuck yeah. Glad you are still killing it.
Glad you did that for the city & that there are still some survivors. The natives look so much better than the sh*t the city plants. I love your "Ask for forgiveness rather than permission"--so true!!
This original video is what started it all for me 😍
Welcome back man. I’m sorry about the M.I.A. median plants. I tried my best to keep things going but water got shutoff everywhere and totally got overpowered.
Picking bay leaves as we hiked into mineral king years ago . Some of my favorite memories of youth . 👍🏻
Tree of many uses, the California bay laurel! I always pick a few for bug repellent on my hikes.
Hell yeah, that video was my introduction to you and botany. Great to see this place again
you must be a proud plant daddy, nice of you to check on your "kids"
Well done. Always good to go back and see what happened.
Guerrilla planting gives me a rush.
Seed balls, volunteer trees and locals I have planted wherever I have lived.
I have to plant two Red Northern Oaks near a clearing by 64.
Keep being a PITA.
I wish you lived in my neighborhood !
I recently gave my mom a bunch of native seeds and a glass jar with holes in the lid to encourage her guerilla gardening habit 😁
Yes! Update to my favorite video!
hey i live on that block witch u planted all those trees on the old towing lot and would love to contine ur work and help care for you babys
The Banksy of botany
It's disturbing that so many of the trees you put in are endangered. Great your spreading the diversity.
I really enjoyed the old videos from Oakland and Berkeley; they really opened my eyes to what was in front of me my whole life and got me interested in ecology.
Those f'n cranes that reminded you of 'Star Wars'-yup, reminded this old gal of 'War of the Worlds'(70's album). Used to have a russian olive tree similar to that one. That beauty blue flowering cacti looks intriguing. Appreciate your knowledge, renegade nature and sarcasm. Thanks from a humble Canadian gardener.
Yaas! I knew it! I could tell by the thumbnail that you are back in Oakland
Department of Unauthorized Forestry merch , hats etc!
LMAO love that he's encouraging people to harvest seeds from the botanical garden. XD
You mentioned araucaria, those are all cool imo. That Fabaceae is crazy, i probably wouldn't have been able to identify it as such with the upside-down flowers. Love the mallows. The blue flower bromeliad is totally nuts. Banger video as always my man.
Good job 👍
You have pretty much created a small forest if you put all plants together. Also, your chanel has become a therapy sort of thing. The only chanel I check daily, even though I have Alert on.
Also, being in India where people are everywhere, I hardly see anybody on your roads, just vehicles! Probably saw less than a dozen people on foot!
I took the train to visit the Berkeley Botanical Garden the other day inspired by your recent video. Too bad I was pooped by the time I made it there without realizing there was a shuttle from the campus up the hill where the garden is. I'll plan better and go back soon. I noticed a lot of the succulents had died back from some kind of disease or chemical attack - Hopefully they get to the bottom of that. I planned to pepper the road dividers here in Davis with "California Native" seeds from the local big box store. Should I trust the label or ditch those you think?
They don't let them use chemicals anymore so all the cacti and succulents got attacked by mites and scale, which they would not otherwise encounter in habitat
Good to see you back in the hood checking on your spots!
Nice to see so many Butano cypress. I was up there after the CZU Fire and it was heartbreaking to see them all scorched. Only time will tell how the population recovers.
Hope you watched were you stepped! Wasn’t the dogs that’s for sure
Instead of leaving a mark through graffiti plant something ... i like the idea
Nice to come back to this place. It is where I started watching your videos. Couldn't believe the knowledge this goomba could spout out without a break. Amazing work and I hope you can continue to inspire more people to do stuff like this for many more years.
A Great man...
Wow ive seen a bunch of these. They really brighten things up
Hard to believe (well, maybe not, all things considered) there were coast redwoods from the Bay Area all the way north past Crescent City turn of last century.
Do you think that ultramafic endemics might be good candidates for urban environments bc of the heavy metal contamination?
Super Chief on track 2
Plants are needed in this world as our lives totally depend on them and as such should be accorded respect. When I was child ,trees impressed me as being very beautiful and now in my 60s trees still are beautiful to me but people not so much .
Eeeeh, Joey, eeeeh, how do you germinate those nice sequoias? Nice 👍🏻
I caught myself just "listening" while shaping a ditch on my property... when he says the scientific names it's crazy relaxing! Along with the stories ta boot!, it's great for listening/learning even more than watchin.
No homo... 😁
Unfortunately those missing plants aren't the only thing getting ripped out of Oakland.
Imma be that guy who comes thru with the chainsaw to fix up trees. Wish me luck!
Holy shit throwback! That original video is how I found you. Awesome to see
Edit: I hate real estate agents
Speaking of botanical garden seeds.... I had no success with double white brugmanzia pods. Are they sterile?
Aren’t double things usually?
Recognising that the wattle is a pest in your area, down under with certain species the seed can be ground for flour...bushtucka.
Gotta love when a city only does nice things with grant money and allows it to quickly decay by refusing to maintain it.
I honestly can’t fathom how anyone can think bare soil, woodchips, or a layer of bare gravel can look better than flowers.
Wood chips can be fruitful for mycologists when overwatered as they tend to be. 😂
well I’m sure that’s not why people in the western U.S that put a layer of painted wood mulch with landscape fabric under it and no plants choose to landscape like that 😂 but fair enough.
@@oscarflip8561 Everyone knows what to do when life gives you lemons. But when life gives you suburban shopping mall hellscapes, make Psilocybe cyanescens.
I'd like to see you botanize the crack plants of the Mission District. Behind the old Lucca Ravioli there was chamomile miraculously growing in thick mats out of the concrete.
To tell you the truth, my mind says somehow that real estate agent got some of those plants. Somehow you still prevail in your honest efforts.
First bromeliad I grew from seed was Puya laxa, 1984.
Bloomed 2 3 years later
7:00 Acacia melanoxylon may have been an unpleasant introduction from down under, but the North America got them back in spades with the scourge of Neltuma glandulosa (formerly of Prosopis) as well as various Opuntias. I have a suspicion some cattle trader hit on the bright idea of bringing a couple of mesquite pods over with a shipment of cows. "Hey check these out, back in Texas the cows eat the shit out of these trees. They like the green pods a lot. Plus the wood is great for barbecuing." Australian rancher: "Mate, what does barbecuing mean?"
Very interesting video 👍👍
OOOh hell yeah Monterrey cypress needs more recognition
Annoyed at the real estate lady, but glad they left a lot of the hummingbird plants
a lot of plant species that are rare in the wild are actually quite common in cultivation
I’d love to plant a Chiranthodendron here in Monterrey, could it survive the short and random freezings?
Come on up to Sacramento!
I am gonna plant some American Chestnuts on my property up north. Maybe plant some rare sequoia's there's a place in Michigan that grows them.
So many real estate agents think they are king of the hill.
with the endangered conifers is there any danger of the ones you planted out hybridizing with local closely related species?
Danger for whom? There's no native cypresses within 40 miles
Just a guess, but per chance was it the real estate agent that happened to live on 2100 dike street?
Also question do you have any tips for knowing where it is safe to dig without hitting stuff like utility lines if you're not on your own property?
They'll be a lot deeper than 12 inches
I got a pocket full of seeds from the bot garden. Oakland ❤
Any tree over 18 inches in diameter is protected in CA. They would need a permit to remove (although the ease of getting such a permit varies widely). I love seeing the California Buckeye. I propagate that tree. I'm trying to get ppl to replace Japanese Maples and crepe myrtles with California Buckeyes.
You should remove Acacia melanoxylon even without a permit. Don't let it produce seeds.
can you cover up the smell of trash or sewage by planting aromatic plants such as cypress and lavender?
How on earth do you know all this?
It’s called a degree in botany.
@@thealternative9580 I have a degree in Botany and don't know half what Tony does from being self-taught
He has a video on how he started self-studying science and botany later in life. He recommends some of the books he used. Never too late in life to start learning something new
I feel like you've walked us through that garden before...
How'd you get the space to grow all these out? From the sound of it you probably had a shitty little place with barely any outdoor space when you worked at the trainyard unless you got real lucky, but you were able to get trees in all over the place. I'd love to do the same but I'm running out of room already
16:18 is that a van?
Have you read any of toby hemenways "retuning to an idea" if so from an invasion biologist do you think about the view of invasives being an idea of human formality of what we think should be there.
Coral "trees" never fails😌
You left an invasive plant as a “present”. 😆
8:35 If sargentii can only grow in sepentine soils, what explains its ability to establish here? Is it that it can technically _survive,_ but not thrive and expand outside of its endemic zone? Im still trying to wrap my head around that concept with species boundaries
Doesn't need serpentine, just tolerates it. Most plants can't
The only thing illegal in this video is an illegally parked refrigerator at 16:28 in! LOL
Really enjoy your enthusiasm with Botany and the microbial system, going through all the tree's ya have planted in the past, good to see that our Aussie tree's/bushes are invading you guys as bad as some US tree's/bushes have invaded us!😂🙌