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PUBLIC LANDSCAPING...WITH NATIVE PLANTS

I was stoked to be contacted by the municipal landscaping greenhouses for the city of Colorado Springs and invited to come check out the work they are doing growing native plants for all of the pub...

Colorado Springs Southwards Podcast and

Cliff Dwellers of New Mexico

In Otero County, New Mexico, near the bustling metropolis of Alamogordo, we encounter a number of cool Chihuahua Desert species that grow out of cracks in cliff faces and on the steep limestone slo...

I-10 Ramblings to New Mexico Podcast

Disjointed Rants about New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Mormons, the origins of Ivermectin, Rat-Trap Pitcher plants and Nepenthes hybrids, and more.

Neotropical Oak Forest & Bush-Checking Becky

In this podcast episode we rant about Neotropical High-elevation Oak forests of Central America, what the hell introgression is (swapping genes between two species through hybridization and back-cr...

Costa Rica Páramo &Oak Forest Photos

The high elevation tropics create one of my favorite plant habitats after deserts and thornscrub. Here are some photos from the Páramo and the oak forest that exists just beneath it. Elevations ra...

Chilly Cloud Forests & Jurassic Conifers

In the chilly wet cloud forests of Costa Rica at 9200' (2800 m) elevation grows a massive, ancient conifer known as Pectinopotys (formerly Prumnopitys) standleyi, where it grows with Podocarpus cos...

Davis Mountains Sashay

Dead Ponderosa pines stand as a relict of the brutal Texas drought but the fungi and other plants like Mandevilla hypoleuca, Echeveria strictiflora, & Adolphia infesta are just waking up.

Concrete Botany Chapter 4 Sneak Peak : Embracing the Living World

A snapshot of the first 6 pages of Chapter 4 from my book Concrete Botany, available for pre-order in August and due for release in April of 2026. I'm excited as hell for this book, and it eloquent...

Davis Mountains Sky Island Podcast

Rants about Davis Mountains fungi, Ponderosa Pine Death from drought, torrential Texas rains, West Texas alcoholics, Mandevilla hypoleuca, Echeveria strictiflora, Growing Madrones, American Smoke T...

How to Install Drip Irrigation in 30 minutes.

In this episode we show how to install drip irrigation on a native plant garden. This is only necessary if we are in a bad drought or since we are planting in the middle of the summer. Irrigation w...

Grand Canyon, Pediocactus, Utah Gypsum

Another 40 minute Four Corners Botany video highlighting some high-elevation habitats of Northern Arizona.

Four Corners Botany Podcast

Rants about the plant species encountered from New Mexico to Southern Utah to Northern Arizona....

Four Corners Botany

Hey everybody Sorry I haven't been posting much here lately I've got far too much to do and it's driving me nuts. I have to drive to Austin in 3 hours to give a presentation. Just finished this vid...

Sand Trap Botany

The geology of Southern New Mexico is based around gently undulating sandals of red sand weathered out of 300 million year old rock. It is hot, dry, and windy, but tons of interesting stuff still m...

Sand Trap Botany of Southern New Mexico

The geology of Southern New Mexico is based around gently undulating sandals of red sand weathered out of 300 million year old rock. It is hot, dry, and windy, but tons of interesting stuff still m...

Gypsum Habitats in New Mexico

Gypsum Mountain "Laurel", Feral Horses, Gypsum flats, Gaillardia multiceps, Pseudoclappia, etc.

Holistic Healing Colon Cleanse in Gypsum Habitats

Rants about permaculture, holistic livestock snake oil, Southern New Mexico gypsum flats, the Guadalupe Mountains, the Schizandra population in Atlanta that's being overtaken by english ivy, the A...

Concrete Botany_BLAD_1L clean.pdf

Here's a sneak peek at the book, coming out April 2026

The Dunes of El Paso

Tons of interesting plant life on the red dunes East of El Paso, dominated by Artemisia filifolia (Chihuahua Desert Sagebrush) and Poliomintha incana (El Paso Bushmint), as well as Rhus microphylla...

Podcast: A Clusterf*ck of Mustards

In this episode we talk with Makenzie Mabry, PhD, about the order Brassicales and all the cool and bizarre plants and plant families within it. We talk about the trend of polyploidy, whole genome d...

Poor Man's Lawn Kill

POOR MAN'S LAWN-KILL

I put this together the other day and haven't polished it up yet but this is a preliminary way to kill your lawn and get a "meadow" (I kind of hate that word tbh) of nat...

Southeastern Gonzo Botany Tour

in Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.

Species featured:

Xanthorhiza simplicissima
Trillium catesbaei
Pyrularia pubera
Cypripedium acaule
Castanea dentata
Bigelo...

What Do You Want to See?

For everybody on Patreon :
What would you want to see on here from Crime Pays? What do you want to learn? What kind of topics would you like me to cover? What do you feel like would enrich your...

PODCAST : Atlanta, Granitic Knobs, Limestone Glades, Native Habitat Project, Etc.

In this episode we talk about the granite/gneiss knobs that surround the Atlanta, Georgia area and the cool plants that grow there, getting unintentionally shot at by morons at Arabia mountain, exp...

Sunny Balls and Granite Outcrops

In this episode we take a stroll on a big ol' polished granite knob Southeast of Atlanta, Georgia to see some of the plants of the Southeastern United States that thrive on the thin soils of granit...

The Long Lost, Gland-Rkdden Sand Pea

This was a cool find...the extremely rare Pomaria austrotexana, a sand-endemic from the hot-as-hell South Texas plains. It's covered in little red glands which smell something like a cross between ...

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Milkweed Pollination, Up Close and Personal

In milkweed flowers, the central column is called the gynostegium. The gynostegium is topped by five white hoods, in between the hoods on the vertical sides of the gynostegium are the stigmatic sli...

Plants, Mushrooms & Cave Creatures of Ecuador

This episode features a trip to Limestone cave in the middle of the upper Amazon in Eastern Ecuador and all the plants and mushrooms along the way, including but not limited to :

Ilex guayu...