Watering Before a Freeze, Goliad Gravels
Rants about South Texas Geology, Geologic Timeline Apps for your D@mn phone, why its better to water before a freeze, being dragged by a freight train leaving Ft. Worth Texas, how much self-hate someo...
14 Jan 20241h 13min
Tucson Again, Agaves, Freezing in NM
Rants about freezing while trying to sleep in the back of a truck in Lordsburg, New Mexico, why Agaves are monocarpic, the importance of having a "target list" should you ever get diagnosed with a ter...
6 Jan 20241h 33min
The Flower That Looks Like a Bird (especially if you're high) & other rants
A roughly 77 minute rant about how an Australian plant in the legume Family named Crotalaria cunninghamii "looks a like a bird" but only to humans who have smoked copious amounts of weed and certainly...
20 Dec 20231h 21min
How Do Chollas Bang
Michelle Cloud-Hughes is a Cactus researcher, botanist and Desert Rat who specializes in one of my favorite cactus genera - Cylindropuntia: the genus of the dreaded Chollas. She has described a new sp...
14 Dec 20232h 4min
Plant Anatomy with Jim Mauseth
Jim Mauseth is a wizard with a microscope and a retired professor of plant anatomy at UT Austin, where he taught for 30+ years. Jim is an expert in Plant Anatomy with an emphasis on Cacti. In this pod...
12 Dec 20231h 34min
Going to Jail for Botany
Dr. Peter Breslin is a Botanist out of Tucson Arizona specializing in Cacti, and recently did time in Brewster County Jail for "trespassing" to photograph some rare endemics that only grow on Novaculi...
5 Dec 20231h 59min
A Conversation About Peyote with Leo Mercado
A discussion about Peyote conservation being done by Morningstar Conservancy in Tucson, Arizona and the ethnobotany of the Peyote Meeting, as well as what it means to "listen to the plant".
26 Nov 20231h 20min
Dallas Plant Rescue & West Texas Dunes
In this episode we rant about :Rescuing and digging thin-soiled limestone prairie plants from a soon-to-be-destroyed site in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area weeks before the bulldozers come by to erect a da...
22 Nov 20231h 37min
