In this episode - Part 3 of this series (check out the prior video here : • Part 2 "The World Doesn't Have to Suck" - ... ) - we follow up on Brad Lancaster's work Guerilla Planting Trees on a bleak section of concrete in his Tucson neighborhood. After that, we check out some legal and permitted installations of trees and rainwater catchment basins he and his community installed on the sidewalks and street margins for the purposes of shading the streets, reducing urban heat and more.

For more on Brad and his community's work: • Subscribe to his YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/HarvestingRainwater

• Check out his "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond" books and website: www.harvestingrainwater.com/

• Check out his community's rain-irrigated native food forestry website: dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/

Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.

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Thanks, GFY.

Part 2 of 4.

Part 1 here : • Harvesting Rainwater with Brad Lancaster: ...

In this second video showcasing Brad Lancaster's work in Tucson, we check out a large Guerrilla Planting project as well as more of the rainwater catchment projects on the neighborhood streets.

For more on Brad and his community's work: • Subscribe to his YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/HarvestingRainwater

• Check out his "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond" books and website: www.harvestingrainwater.com/

• Check out his community's rain-irrigated native food forestry website: dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/

Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.

Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com...

Or consider becoming a patreon supporter @ :

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Plants ID questions or reading list suggestions can be sent to crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com

Thanks, GFY.

We start this episode off in a "White Cedar" (Chamaecyparis thyoides) bog checking out some rare sedges and wax-myrtles, then examine the gradual transition from healthy, fire-maintained woods to dense, fire-suppressed woods and "the sh*tty woods". We check out a population of the rare sumac, Rhus michauxii, a sand-endemic, low-growing rare plant that would make a great native plant for horticulture to replace all the lousy day lilies that the state of North Carolina plants along the highways. We end the episode looking at some really healthy, fire-maintained longleaf pine (PInus palustris) savannas and some venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) and pitcher plants (Sarracenia flava and Sarracenia x catesbaei).

In this episode, Daniel Dukakis of *Visionary Innovations Landscape Entities (VILE) ™️ * shows us some of the INCREDIBLY SKILLED landscaping jobs he's undertaken in the state of North Carolina. One thing Daniel's superior quality work implies is that the location doesn't matter, because this could be anywhere in the US - the quality is THAT good.

Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.

Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com

Brownsville, Texas - the construction crew & developer gave us a few extra days to salvage these rare caper trees before they clear the rest of the parcel for McMansions and tasteless non-native landscaping, which was very kind of them.

I even mentioned to One of the guys how stupid it is to remove this vegetation since it's not in the way of anything and all these plants are perfectly adapted to this climate and he agreed and shook his head. It's not their call, they're just doing a job, and these Ponzi-scheme developments are going up all over the country. It's an economic model that likely won't change, but maybe the landscaping choices can. It's my hope that if trees or native vegetation isn't in the way, maybe they can start leaving some of it. I've been studying the flora of this region for the past six years, and the plants that grow here are like finely tuned machines that thrive in these extreme conditions as a result of having evolved here over hundreds of thousands of years. They handle heat, drought and winds in ways that Crepe Myrtles, life oaks and Queen Palms can't.

Anyway, let's check out this habitat while we still can...

On the first episode of this new series we visit a recently built development that's home to several medical offices and a bank on the outskirts of Pharr, Texas that was former agriculture. If you didn't feel like dying before you watched this episode, you sure will after.

Originally filmed in July of 2023 and the outskirts of Cleveland Ohio, we check out the largest poison ivy I've ever seen (though I have seen pictures of ones that are twice the size).

Toxicodendron radicans, Suburban Office Slums, Suburban Hell, Fleabag Motel, etc.

When I get to hell ... it will look something like this except I'll have a hot poker in my ass

What is crepe myrtle bark scale and why is it your friend?

Filmed in Austin, Texas

This video starts while roaming the streets of a small town in southern Puebla state, Mexico. we then descend into the limestone hills and Cactus forests of Northern Oaxaca, taking time to inspect and pay homage to the wonderful tree Ocotillo known as Fouquieria purpusii. Afterwards we check out some early Cretaceous fern fossils and a host of cool plant species growing in the dry tropical scrub of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.

Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com...

In this episode we return to Hidalgo State Mexico to film a very unique habitat where tall columnar cacti (Cephalocereus senilis) grow next to weeping pinion pines. The geology here is also unusual, where a much younger lava flow cooled into columns on top of much older calcareous shale.

species mentioned in this video include but are not limited to :

Machaonia coulteri (Rubiaceae) Turnera diffusa (Passifloraceae) Hibiscus coulteri (Malvaceae) Decatropis bicolor (Rutaceae) Lantana canescens Salvia podadena Croton incanus Painteria elachistophylla Cyphomeris gypsophyloides Leucophyllum ambiguum Lantana camara Echinofossulocactus dichroacanthus Cephalocereus senilis Pinus pinceana Dasylirion quadrangulatum Pinus cembroides Sedum corynephyllum Kalanchoe x houghtonii Dodonaea viscosa Dahlia scapigeroides Syringantha coulteri Vauquelinia corymbosa

Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.

Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com...

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In this episode we return to San Luis Potosí to check out some of the Xerophytic vegetation growing in silty calcareous mud, limestone karst and ephemeral lakes. Plants like false Peyote (Lophophora koehresii), Nernstia mexicana (Rubiaceae), Neopringlea integrifolia (Salicaceae), Thelocactus hexadrophus, Mammillaria geminispina, Opuntia microdasys, Justicia linearis, and more.

Your contributions support this content. It sounds cliché but it's true. Whether it's travel expenses, vehicle repair, or medical costs for urushiol poisoning (or rockfalls, bee-stings, hand slices, toxic sap, etc), your financial support allows this content to continue so the beauty of Earth's flora can be made accessible to the public, accompanied by a small dose of profanity and crude humor. At a time when so much is disappearing beneath the human footprint, CPBBD is willing to do whatever it takes to document these plant species and the ecological communities they are a part of before they're gone for good.

Plants make people feel good. Plants quell homicidal (and suicidal!) thoughts. To support Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, consider donating a few bucks to the venmo account "societyishell" or the PayPal account email crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt@gmail.com...

In this episode we stroll around a karstic spring while looking at an endangered fish species (the checkered pupfish) and a rare plant community centered around the iconic Montezuma Cypress or Ahuehuete, Taxodium mucronatum.

For better or worse, agree or disagree, here's 5 minutes of assorted ramblings from my friend Martin G, in his classical "light-hearted-about-very-dark-things" tone. Originally filmed in 2020

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18222790

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