As a Texas native I really appreciate all of these videos on Texas plants, I absolutely love how different each part of Texas is. Seeing all that limestone just makes me wanna go fossil hunting.

"What are they, Fucking?!" Exactly what you would expect to hear while watching a 30 minute video about local flora in Texas. I love it.

The sound of running water quells my homicidal thoughts, what beautiful places Joey. Thank you!

LOL! "Montezumas. With the conspicuous lack of knees."😆

Have you ever run your finger over he stamens of an opuntia? The stamens fold up over your finger towards the pistil. They move faster than a venus fly trap. It works better on a cholla than a beaver tail. Chollas are faster, but every opuntia I tried it on has moving stamens. They also wrap around bees that visit the flowers. Nest time you come across a blooming opuntia run your little finger over the stamens. Film it, it makes a cool video. ppmoore

Looks like an awesome jumping spot. It must be pretty isolated, because around where I live a place like that would be full of beer cans, blunt wrappers, & graffiti lol

Your commentary is the absolutely perfect zero notes DON'T EVER STOP!

I love that you can appreciate the place i grew up in, thanks so much for sharing this with the world, disappearing fast!

One of my fave episodes yet ... dude, that armadillo shell was fing cool. It was clearly a good day.

Fish eggs can hitch a ride through a bird's digestive tract to get to remote waters. And sometimes also stuck to their feathers. Only took 3 years to see minnows in a barrow pit (pond made by removing soil for highway ramps). It had nothing but Canadian geese by the hundreds in it and no people. I may have been the only one going to it, the owner didn't go back into the fields he leased anymore.

WOW!!! The limestone waterfall with ferns growing upside down. So beautiful, I want to go there 🥺😭

Thank you for sharing that beautiful place.

The beauty of the microclimate is so incredible. If there were no plants there that water would all be gone. And conversely its so amazing what happens when people take land like that that has no plants on it and they push, they water, they mulch, they use local plants and in a few years they can bring the water, the life back to the land.

Such cool sinkholes, very neat stuff. Your videos always remind me of my father, he was a botanist. He would have loved these videos, I wish he could have seen them.

You are in the running for landscape of the week. That was beautiful country... like crawling around in a really old Japanese guy's terrarium. If the silly swagman doesn't upload anything over the weekend, you might win it.

You have straight up talent bro. I have been watching this channel forever and you have been the man. You should be getting at least a little rich off of these videos because they’re so good. Straight up.

You find the most beautiful places always! Joey walks with plant dinosaurs. Heaven!

LOVE that Salvia roemeriana! We call it Cedar Sage bcuz it likes to grow near the Cedars, which aren't Cedars, but like you mentioned, they're Junipers! And it LOVES growing in deep shade, at least at my house it does! Nice pop of color!

i'll let gramma know not to cook the beans in the car anymore

So beautiful, no other combination of plant species and topography look like that, only central Texas.

My favorite quote from this vid (besides the low-brow, bean-fart comment) is when you were looking at the beetles. “I wanna know everything about em.” A quote we should all try to live by, in every aspect of our lives. Thanks for another great vid, Joey. Appreciate what you do.

Excellent video as always

Thank you for highlighting the natural beauty of central Texas.

I live in Austin but love this area of Travis county. Thank you for what you do

My grandfather was a botanist by trade working citrus. He used to just take us walking up and down the mountain our grandparents lived right at the base of. He was a Boston born son of Italian immigrants and he used to talk to us kind of like these videos just pointing em out and rambling. He used to make us pick him fly agaric and he would brew it into a stinky tea, he once let me have a sip and I was out that afternoon til morning! He always wanted to visit Madagascar and your videos brought back some memories! Keep up what ya do and get over to that island sometime!

So happy to see you in the neighborhood!

Tonys the best ever guy......ever.

i love watching your videos and guessing which family the plants belong to! Your dog looks adorable too. My expectations of my dream husband are definitely way too high due to you 🥲

Hog plum, Makes some of the best jelly in the world.My Grandma used to make it all the time.I would pick it as a little boy and take it to her

Fish eggs come in on water birds legs…I think it’s so cool. I haven’t met and Asclepius I didn’t love! That felt it Gallardia was jaw dropping. I’m crazy for what I call sculptural flowers and plants. Hell, I love all native plants wherever they may be. Have you done a piece on the El Paso area? Not sure I want to see what’s been done to it but there are cool flora there. Thank you for filming more of that stunning area.

All milkweed is gorgeous

Wow this is a really cool spot.

Gorgeous! Just gorgeous!

Another awesome educational adventure thanks brother ❤❤ best wishes from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Lovin everything you do man! I'm in Australia, and even so you're such an inspiration to me and my botanical/horticultural proclivities!

Thank you for being an inspiration and showing all these diverse plants and ecosystems! Love your videos ❤

What a beautiful landscape.

this is awesome to see my backyard welcome to the neighborhood

I really like that you include family with things, always forget mulberry is sort of inside out fig :P

11:58 that turtle just living his best life.

Ahem sir. Stygmatic slit between those two purple hoods was straight from a romance novel 😂

Man I was just down the road at reimers ranch a couple days ago. What a beautiful spring! Hey man if you want some Austin area wild growing passion flower, I’ll hook you up! I just dug up a bunch of starters at work today.

Hey! You're up near my neck of the woods in Austin, nice of you to visit. Timing is good, too, wettest Spring I can recall. I learn so much watching your videos. If you are not now a professor of Botany at some Texas University, they should be recruiting you. You would be the most popular prof in the state. BTW, I fully endorse your pattern of speech, time to admit to reality in Texas.

Love your stuff.

Such a beautiful place, the Edward’s plateau, with its rich history of comanche lore and their war with Mexican and anglo American settlers. Teeming with life from the abundance of water from the Edward’s aquifer and the beautiful landscape of limestone flats and hills. Too bad austin and its surroundings are growing too fast. The undisturbed land in older times would’ve been amazing to see.

missed coming out to the cactus market during to work last weekend but i’m thrilled you got to experience some of the wondrous endemic fauna to edwards plateau!

"Granitic Anomoly" great name for a Rock band🤘

Oooh that bronze beetle is gorgeous…love the wildlife as much as the flora and geology, love how you see the landscape too. 🌼🗿🪲🐢

2:30 I figure they would close up for the heat of midday, texas usually has higher humidity in the morning, before a wave of heat around 11. Also pollinators change over the course of a day, I see a lot more ant activity in the morning, bees midday, and hover flies in the evening, could also help select the pollinator? 5:27 asimina flowers also follow the maroon flower with white center. Definitely could be mimicking a bit of bone poking out of a fresh carcass, best spot to lay eggs or grab a meal.

Planning a trip to the area and last night my lady literally showed me this same place, weird timing, can’t wait to see this place

I've been trying to grow A. asperula (among other Asclepias) for my research up in NY and it's a challenge, but these videos honestly help give an idea of what kind of environmental conditions I should be aiming for! (Gene Thomas' book helps too )

6:40 I'm a geologist by education a flower and insect lover raised by a pre-school teacher. I'm in heaven with your content dude.

I love all your stuff, but Im really loving these Texas vids ^v^

I luh the vibes today😩good milkweed

I have endless seeds of native salvia, red like that, I scatter them about here in Florida.

Karmeria to the win. Amazing places

Had to like the vid for the pro tip on old beans 😆 Texas looks rad!

Aww just want to give Jack endless pets!!

Can't touch this! Always love your casually awesome macro work.

Water spots are the best. So much life.

my partner and i ARE comanche and when you said "comanche vibes today" we CRACKED upppp

Joey, yelling rapturously like an ankle enthusiast at ye olde Victorian peep show “no knees, no knees” 😂

I planted a lot of gaillardia in my yard this spring. The slugs have been a bunch of bastards to them though. They treat the seedlings like they’re prime rib, it’s been an on-going war for the past month.

I never realized west Texas was so mesic.

Good find!

So lucky to have been able to swim in the Hamilton pool

Beautiful.

Thinking about camping at Hill Country SNA in a couple weeks. Might do Fort Richardson instead though, since it's a much shorter drive for me. These Texas videos are always handy for refreshing my memories of the native plants outside my little part of the state.

That ibervillea is cool, I have some I grew from seed a couple years ago. Big caudex

if those fish are anything like the ones that show up in the seasonal desert pools around arizona then what happened was their ancestors got their during a flood and they lay their eggs under the dirt at the bottom of a pool or stream. and the eggs can dry out and stay preserved for a while and will become reactivated when they get wet during the next flood and all hatch.

What a nice dog they’ve got!

Flies are attracted to the meat colour of those flowers. Canadian spelling of colour.

There is an ant trying to avoid the PDA from the two beetles at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fK6becapupayZYU.html A small yellow ant, probably Formicinae... didn't look like it could sting. Can't say much more than that. Poor girl was probably mortified by those beetles ... Get a nook/flower/hole in the ground!

"I wanna know all about 'em" - same, babe.

Video vibe is dope af 🤘🏻🌺thank you

Dang that is beautiful

Hexagons are the bestagons

You should go to Pedernales Falls. If you want to go swimming go to Camp Ben McCullough.

I grew not to far from Llano, thank you for showing all the cool as shit nature we have out there.

Such beautiful country, and I don't think I saw one piece of trash.

Thanks for all information, you are just amazing ✌️

Dude I love your content and I learn so much!

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That spring could be connected to other bodies of water underground.

Second comment. I think the following Tony quote would make a good band name. Feel free to use it. Conspicuous Lack of Knees . I think it is hip.

Do the milkweed vine attract monarch butterflies the way other species of milkweed do?

What's that striking dark red flower in the middle of the screen at 16:06 ? (Gaillardia??)

"No knee's, it has no use for knee's! Don't ask me how it get's around but it's not by the use of knee's!"

i dont even smoke weed anymore but id love to smoke in a lawn chair right in front of the water

Making me homesick.

OK. I know you were at Hamilton Pool and then you moved west to the Llano uplift. I'm not sure you are by the Llano River, because there are numerous creeks around there, but that would be a big one, so maybe it's the river. I wish you would provide a map of some kind. Even some marks on a road map tracing your route. You don't have to say where you stopped. Also, tell us what that "beautiful bug" is, I have a suspicion that it's an Arctiid moth. P.. S. Hamilton Pool used to have beaches and it was glorious. It looks like the beaches have been washed away and the waterfall is in a different place, because of flooding..

As a local Texan it reminds me that mostly I know the common names. So just a tip. I know they seem stupid but it helps me understand the Latin names better if I can identify with what I know.

Those moth balls are fast at pollinating lmfao

Those looked like river cooters, maybe red eared sliders.

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Don't miss the camouflaged moth at ~1:26.

Are those rose quartz?? I have a bunch of that on my property in Baja and I was curious

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