This episode focuses on the little-known Pencil Cactus of South Texas, a plant that is so good at hiding in the Thornscrub of its native habitat that many people don't even know it's there until it flowers with its conspicuous pink blooms.
2023-04-06 18:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video we take a loot at some of the rarest and most elusive plants in the vanishing Tamaulipan Thornscrub of South Texas, including Asclepias prostrata and Erythrostemon caudatus.
Mark Egger and the genus Castilleja, 2 hour podcast
Here's a more complete video of another day rescuing plants from the state-funded border wall project in South Texas
2023-03-30 16:58:28 +0000 UTC View PostJoey Santore is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Dr. Corey Nelson was kind enough to take 80 minutes to talk with me about soil crusts in deserts and talk about some of the fascinating shit going on the living skin of these fragile landscapes.
2023-03-23 18:13:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Your feedback appreciated on this vid, as I tried two new cameras on this one as I've been desperate to get better picture lately while also not using something that's too bulky - the first is an iphone 14, which has shitty resolution in close-ups. The second is a Sony camcorder which has a shitty mic. Please let me know what you think and how they compare to the camera I've previously used.
That said, the habitat here is some of my favorite in the world, and also some of the most ...
Hey everybody, sorry this took so long to get this episode up! I've been busy as hell and on the road. Here's the podcast about North American railroads, the palestine wreck, precision scheduled railroading,etc.
Sorry the intro music is a little jarring, it's some new orleans street band music. I was in the mood.
2023-03-01 18:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostRicardo Ramirez is a naturalist and photographer documenting rare cacti and reptiles in Northern Mexico. In this episode we talk about the dry lakebed cactus habitat of Coahuila and Chihuahua, cactus diversity in the Sierra Madre Oriental, interactions with narcos while botanizing and road cruising for snakes, and much more.
2023-02-21 00:10:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Kept this one short, and still got a few videos to edit from Tasmania. Hope you enjoy it!
2023-02-16 16:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of these aren't terrific, but that's not the point. I try to draw just to draw. Quantity over quality makes for better practice. Plus the colored pencils I used on the Pilostyles, for instance, were real shit quality (Prismacolor on the others). I use a tombow soft tip pen for the outlines, which you can refill with waterproof India ink for a few weeks until the ink quality finally fades and they shit the bed.
One of the BEST ways to learn botany (or anything for that matter) is to just go out and start immersing yourself in it, even if you don't yet have a clue as to what the fuck what you're doing.
And to make these experiences count, that's where the importance of photos comes in. And why not? With digital photography you can take a hundred shitty photos in a day and it doesn't matter - if they end up being useless, who cares?
Just delete them. Investing in a good camera, and even ...
In New Orleans for two weeks to shoot two episodes of Kill Your Lawn. Peace be Witchoo (and also witch you)
2023-02-13 22:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostAnother ad-Free episode of the Podcast. We talk about endangered species murals, Congolese Uranium, the blind catfish of Del Rio, Texas and more.
2023-02-11 19:55:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode we talk about a Peyote Ceremony led by visiting Navajo in South Texas, the rare Esenbeckia berlandieri (or Esenbeckia runyonii), South Texas Thornscrub, Kill Your Lawn episodes on South Padre Island, used-car-salesmen scams from Chicago Childhood, going to the fitness center of the mind, slamming non-alcoholic beers and doing paht, and more.
2023-02-07 14:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-02-02 04:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostI'm stoked on this episode - Scott Zona, PhD is a botanist and palm expert and author of the new book " A Gardener's Guide to Botany" on Cool Springs Press. His instagram page, @Scott.Zona is a phenomenal wealth of information on plants, many of which you've probably never heard of before.
What the shit is a hardwood hammock? Why does Metopium toxiferum have such beautiful bark? Swamp-wading, Epiphytic orchids, photosynthetic roots, corralloid roots and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, among many other topics all ranted and raved about in this hour long podcast. GFY BYE
2023-01-19 19:20:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode we talk Florida Plants, Sandhill Scrub, Everglades, Habitat Destruction, How backyard growers help start native plant movements, etc.
2023-01-13 01:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
While not getting anywhere near as large as California Redwoods, Athrotaxis is still an undeniably somewhat close Taxodioid relative. Here's a video featuring all three species (technically one is just a fertile hybrid).
Pyracantha Death, Obscene Birders, Western Interior Seaway, Reflecting on Permaculture Projects in the West Texas Desert.
2023-01-03 18:14:16 +0000 UTC View Post
In the mid elevation sclerophyll forests of Tasmania we check out a cast of remarkable species including a host specific fungus that parasitizes Southern Beech trees but does not seem to harm them. We also check out the gondwanen relatives of our northern hemisphere redwoods in the genus Athrotaxis.
2022-12-24 22:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a reminder, if you don't have this (I keep a copy on my phone and have a seven foot tall poster somebody printed for me for free on my wall), you need it....
Part of me worries this video is too long, but there was a lot of good stuff to film in this one ... Let me know what you think.
2022-12-20 14:50:51 +0000 UTC View Post
