Unauthorized Botanic Garden

Looks like newer science puts the Lake Missoula flooding at 15-13kya. I was going off my schooling which is an old reference. Still though, the glaciation from that period means that a lot of the northern rockies haven't had as long time for the plant communities to evolve and specialize.

Bryan Humphreys

7000 years ago was actually really dry and warm. It was a period variously referred to as the Altithermal/Hypsithermal/Middle Holocene Climatic Optimum. Treelines were about 300 meters higher than today. I study archaeological cultures during that period of time in the Rockies and out on the Plains.

Love the subtitles on the videos, I enjoy it at all times but being able to spell what my deaf ears cant hear makes me feel just a little brighter than I deserve. Take care, hope you are doing well.

Just finished the latest podcast. Glad to see the city saw a good thing and is letting you do your thing. As for the Rocky Mountains, give us a break, 7000 years ago it was nothing but glaciers and glacial lakes. Where I live the soil doesn't have a lot of nutrients because it's all belt rock gravel or granite gravel where the batholith occured and was covered in a 1000 feet of water for 6000 of the last 13000 years. And it has all burned away, it used to be mature cedar forests in the wetter parts but the great burn of 1910 and many other fires destroyed those old stands except for a few areas. So now it's mostly lodgepole and fir.

Bryan Humphreys

I love it, and have wanted to do this kind of thing for a while. I had an abandoned home behind my coach house apartment in Chicago and broke in to kill dandelions one spring, but that's as far as my vigilante gardening has gone so far. One thing that's awesome: I'm using the Picture This app to identify plants that I get interested in. This video was the first time I noticed something I'd previously identified in your video. There was an epipactis helleborine I saw in Maine. I still want more content on invasive species, or maybe the converse: how to find rare native plants that will grow in an environment I have available to cultivate.

Rob Chauncey

Nobody's ever said anything but thanks. Some old stodgy white couple told me to spread the mulch thinner once but I just informed them I'm working for free and the shit breaks down by half after the winter rains start.

Anthony J Malone

Has anyone ever messed with you when you've done this? Do you just do it during the day?

Rob Chauncey