This was great and brought back memories! I studied horticulture at Cornell nearly 40 years ago. I would often spend hours at this site decompressing after exams. The former greenhouse was more jungle like with an enormous vanilla orchid rambling up to the rafters. Can’t wait to revisit to check out the new construction and technology!
Really cute story about the banana cutting :D My enthusiasm for plants was also solidified by a lovely probably-breaking-the-rules worker at a botanical collection. She would often pass me little bags of soil mix, expired seeds, and the occasional plantlet or two, and ALWAYS patiently listen to my 7-13 year old ramblings on all the cool plants I had read about, and what I had spotted in the botanical garden that day. I'm actually still in contact with her, she works for the Natural History Museums here in Copenhagen, and I've given her back many plants and seeds I've collected from my life and travels abroad. Nurture children's interests in plants, if they've got any. Same with other hobbies or interests. Even expensive interests have an affordable starting point, and you can always supplement what you can't afford to buy them. Little handouts, books, browse some cool informative webpages with them, and make an effort to go visit collections or events about their interests. I can't tell you how amazing it was to have a lovely botanical gardens shop worker to release my enthusiasm for plants onto, when no one in my own family really cared that much :P And the fact that she went out of her way to facilitate and encourage my interest... just absolutely invaluable.
What a great day! New conservatory tour! Paul and the entire team did an amazing job in keeping this one really neat. The lily time-lapse is just amazing
Loved this tour! There is a paradise-like atmosphere there, with such great variety. Your practised, knowledgeable tour-guide was just as wonderful, as the surroundings. Like the technical devices too. Architects might want to think about these for us in the near future. Further success in all of your ventures. Hope everyone gets to follow Summer and her team's footsteps into this worldly garden.
Thank you so much for this tour of the conservatory. I cannot get enough of your plant tours and videos. The mimosa is probably one of my favorite plants. But not that mimosa in the video. Each time I mention a mimosa people think of one of the two. The sensitive plant or the Albizia julibrissin. But when I moved to far west Texas in the desert, I found our native mimosas. Mimosa texana and Mimosa borealis. At bloom time in the Spring, a limb on this shrub is a beauty with the blooms all lined up. Keep up the great work.
Greetings from Australia. Loved this tour as it was so interesting. Plants never cease to amaze and delight. Been watching you Summer for quite a few years now and admire your enquiring and questioning plant brain!! Pollination- a true fascination.
Amazing, I genuinely said wow out loud when I saw the Victoria Lilly from below. One of those wonderful things the internet makes possibe, being able to check out beautiful conservatories from around the world from the comfort of home. Of course I would rather be there, but that's not always possible
I can confirm that the Mimosa plants, called dormilona here in Costa Rica, are an invasive pest in the tropics. They are thorny, rambling and fairly resistant to most herbicides. Luckily the seeds don't tend to spread far from the mother plant. So if you put on leather gloves and pull them before they go to seed you can generally eliminate them in a season or two, but it's a lot of work.
Love to see the older plants. I have had longer, happier friendships with my plants than with some of the humans in my orbit. My oldest plant pals are approaching forty years. Would love to take Summer on an old timer indoor plant, yard and woods forage, exotic veggie garden, chicken house playday! The videos are always excellent and are my big, safe, social life indulgence.
Welwitschia Mirabilis!! There is a variegated Welwitschia Mirabilis at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory. I would die if I got offered a seed, wow 😳 Thanks for sharing the incredible tour with us Summer! :)
That tour was very wonderful and the gardener is super gentil and it is fantastic to listen. I’m learning at that moment to become a gardener (and hopefully in a botanical garden later) and I hope to become like him!
Very interesting tour, it was nice seeing the fly having a hard time carrying the pollen on its back nature is amazing, beautiful flower of the Victoria lily and it’s probably a very fragrant, thanks for sharing Summer!!!
When I worked at Wichita Botanical gardens we had the giant Victorians. One of our gardeners stayed up all night to try and pollinate the flowers because the seeds can be very expensive. I don't recall if it worked, but it was a very exciting attempt for us in Kansas. Not fun to remove the leaves!!! Lol What a beautiful tour! Thank you Summer!
Mimosa pudica is native to Mexico and Central and South America. I think the trick with Aristolochias is that the female stage happens before the pollen release, and the plants keep the insects incarcerated throughout the two stages. First the traped insect pollinates the receptive stigma, if it's already visited another flower beforehand. Then, as the male reproductive parts start releasing pollen, the tube hairs become flaccid, so the insect has a chance to carry the flower's pollen to new receptive female organs on different flowers. Also, you missed the other pitch plant, Cephalotus follicularis.
I SO enjoyed that tour Summer ~ thank you! For me there's nothing better than a beautiful conservatory visit and being party to the conversations between yourself and the curators about individual plants in such an interesting collection. BTW, what was that large alien looking stem with the incredible conical spikes? (@ 28/30:00 by the bromeliads).
The Dutchman's Pipe is one of my favorite garden plants.. it requires almost no care [ I'm in Florida] and everyone is just flabbergasted when they see those outrageous blooms. P.S. is it crazy for me to keep a strangler fig as a house plant/pet? lol I yanked it out of a palm tree .. then felt bad for it. lol it's getting bigger.
I've had good luck with a home mix 1 C water, a squirt of liquid dish soap, a 1/2 tsp. liquid fert. and 1/2 tsp. cooking oil....mix it up spray it on leave a minute or 2 no longer...it loostens hard scale and coats pest bugs..then they remove easily, when rinsed off thoroughly. Do not save mix after use. Repeat as needed.
Loved the tour, maybe you will go back sometime so we can learn about more plants! I live in Northeastern Massachusetts and the native white petaled waterlily is Nymphaea odorata. I have photos took from a pond in Kingston, NH but I don’t know how to post them here.
Beautiful collection and awesome tour and discussion! The Sarracenia species shown at 26:23 isn't S. purpurea as labeled in the video, but looks like S. leucophylla or a hybrid of that species.
I have a centipede living in one of my platycerium pots and it's the only one that has high resistance to hard scale bugs. I think he must run up and down the leaves at night to find bugs.
oh my god, i was reading abt carlos magdalena & the new giant lilypad species tht was just identified this year (victoria boliviana?) and it just so cool hear him mentioned here :o
How strange. Ive never heard of this man. Mind you Im not a student of horticultural history. I really only know of a few British ones like Joseph Banks who died 1820 aged 77 after a career as a botanist and plant collector. Also involved in the development of Kew Gardens into the world's largest botanical gardens. One or two other plant hunters but mostly gardeners such as Capability Brown, Gertrude Jekyll, Humpfry Repton. And of course the Royal Horticultural Society that was founded in 1804 to promote horticulture. We did read about a few French designers as part of our general dip into garden history on my horticulture course. I am aware though, of the fact that US mental hospitals started planned use of horticulture as part of their treatment routines long before the UK. Although gardening had long been an activity carried out by UK asylum inmates its focus had been on food production rather than therapy. Thank you US for leading the way. (I worked in mental health).
This was great and brought back memories! I studied horticulture at Cornell nearly 40 years ago. I would often spend hours at this site decompressing after exams. The former greenhouse was more jungle like with an enormous vanilla orchid rambling up to the rafters. Can’t wait to revisit to check out the new construction and technology!
One of my fave conservatory tours ever! Love to see two knowledgeable persons respecting each other.
Really cute story about the banana cutting :D
My enthusiasm for plants was also solidified by a lovely probably-breaking-the-rules worker at a botanical collection. She would often pass me little bags of soil mix, expired seeds, and the occasional plantlet or two, and ALWAYS patiently listen to my 7-13 year old ramblings on all the cool plants I had read about, and what I had spotted in the botanical garden that day. I'm actually still in contact with her, she works for the Natural History Museums here in Copenhagen, and I've given her back many plants and seeds I've collected from my life and travels abroad.
Nurture children's interests in plants, if they've got any. Same with other hobbies or interests. Even expensive interests have an affordable starting point, and you can always supplement what you can't afford to buy them. Little handouts, books, browse some cool informative webpages with them, and make an effort to go visit collections or events about their interests. I can't tell you how amazing it was to have a lovely botanical gardens shop worker to release my enthusiasm for plants onto, when no one in my own family really cared that much :P And the fact that she went out of her way to facilitate and encourage my interest... just absolutely invaluable.
The Victoria flower time lapse was AMAZING. Thanks for the entire video. Really enjoyed.
What a great day! New conservatory tour! Paul and the entire team did an amazing job in keeping this one really neat. The lily time-lapse is just amazing
Loved this tour! There is a paradise-like atmosphere there, with such great variety. Your practised, knowledgeable tour-guide was just as wonderful, as the surroundings. Like the technical devices too. Architects might want to think about these for us in the near future. Further success in all of your ventures. Hope everyone gets to follow Summer and her team's footsteps into this worldly garden.
Thank you so much for this tour of the conservatory. I cannot get enough of your plant tours and videos. The mimosa is probably one of my favorite plants. But not that mimosa in the video. Each time I mention a mimosa people think of one of the two. The sensitive plant or the Albizia julibrissin. But when I moved to far west Texas in the desert, I found our native mimosas. Mimosa texana and Mimosa borealis. At bloom time in the Spring, a limb on this shrub is a beauty with the blooms all lined up. Keep up the great work.
That was a great tour learned a lot. It makes me happy to see people who love their work.
Love everything about this video. Free, imformative, wholesome and great quality ❤️
Greetings from Australia. Loved this tour as it was so interesting. Plants never cease to amaze and delight. Been watching you Summer for quite a few years now and admire your enquiring and questioning plant brain!! Pollination- a true fascination.
became addicted to each field trip video here…
Amazing, I genuinely said wow out loud when I saw the Victoria Lilly from below. One of those wonderful things the internet makes possibe, being able to check out beautiful conservatories from around the world from the comfort of home. Of course I would rather be there, but that's not always possible
I can confirm that the Mimosa plants, called dormilona here in Costa Rica, are an invasive pest in the tropics. They are thorny, rambling and fairly resistant to most herbicides. Luckily the seeds don't tend to spread far from the mother plant. So if you put on leather gloves and pull them before they go to seed you can generally eliminate them in a season or two, but it's a lot of work.
Love to see the older plants. I have had longer, happier friendships with my plants than with some of the humans in my orbit. My oldest plant pals are approaching forty years. Would love to take Summer on an old timer indoor plant, yard and woods forage, exotic veggie garden, chicken house playday! The videos are always excellent and are my big, safe, social life indulgence.
Welwitschia Mirabilis!! There is a variegated Welwitschia Mirabilis at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory. I would die if I got offered a seed, wow 😳 Thanks for sharing the incredible tour with us Summer! :)
That tour was very wonderful and the gardener is super gentil and it is fantastic to listen. I’m learning at that moment to become a gardener (and hopefully in a botanical garden later) and I hope to become like him!
What a fantastic tour this was. I learned so much through this tour and I hope to have the pleasure one day of touring this particular greenhouse.
Yessssssssssssssss the queen of plants posted !!!!!!
Your enthusiasm for plants is infectious. Really enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing.
Thinking back of when I was young and no one told me about plants... just sports. Damnit. Awesome greenhouse at the school thanks
"wellwitchia from Namibia"... Summer.. your memory of plant names and where they are from is remarkable! I Your tours are wonderful!
love that Summer ask the technical stuff for the people whose gonna ask at home 'green house nerds' lol
Very interesting tour, it was nice seeing the fly having a hard time carrying the pollen on its back nature is amazing, beautiful flower of the Victoria lily and it’s probably a very fragrant, thanks for sharing Summer!!!
Thank you Ms. Summer. As always great information. 🌺💚🙃
this guy was great. also a great job from summer, too! love your videos!
Great video! Love two enthusiasts having such an informative conversation. Thank you both!
When I worked at Wichita Botanical gardens we had the giant Victorians. One of our gardeners stayed up all night to try and pollinate the flowers because the seeds can be very expensive. I don't recall if it worked, but it was a very exciting attempt for us in Kansas. Not fun to remove the leaves!!! Lol What a beautiful tour! Thank you Summer!
Amazing how nothing just designs itself all so beautifully as if there were a creator behind it all.
There is a Creator behind it
Oh wow! I didn’t realize this is in Philly! Maybe I’ll take my son there someday 😊 He already likes staring at my plant collection 🥰
This has been one of the best tour videos!!
Wow that was one of the most unique and best tours! Loved the way he talked thru the plant. Learned a lot.
Mimosa pudica is native to Mexico and Central and South America.
I think the trick with Aristolochias is that the female stage happens before the pollen release, and the plants keep the insects incarcerated throughout the two stages. First the traped insect pollinates the receptive stigma, if it's already visited another flower beforehand. Then, as the male reproductive parts start releasing pollen, the tube hairs become flaccid, so the insect has a chance to carry the flower's pollen to new receptive female organs on different flowers.
Also, you missed the other pitch plant, Cephalotus follicularis.
I always passed by this on campus and had no idea it was that nice inside
Love this tour. 💚
Thank you SO much for this!!!
So sweet!!
Thank you guys!!
Amazing conservatory❤
Big fan of Cornell and would love to see this collection. Your sarracenia that was labeled as ‘purpurea’ looked more like a leucophylla.
Ok, you all know what Welwitschia reminds you of. Just don’t want to say it at loud. Not a cactus 😅
Thank you Summer
The chronicle tour of the plants is cool
Always fun to visit a greenhouse. I felt sad when I saw the Sequoia.
What a wonderful tour!
Exciting info and visual love 💚
I SO enjoyed that tour Summer ~ thank you! For me there's nothing better than a beautiful conservatory visit and being party to the conversations between yourself and the curators about individual plants in such an interesting collection. BTW, what was that large alien looking stem with the incredible conical spikes? (@ 28/30:00 by the bromeliads).
I've always dreamt of a greenhouse that size, I'd have a hammock between two palms.
Lovely lovely lovey 🙌💚
The Dutchman's Pipe is one of my favorite garden plants.. it requires almost no care [ I'm in Florida] and everyone is just flabbergasted when they see those outrageous blooms. P.S. is it crazy for me to keep a strangler fig as a house plant/pet? lol I yanked it out of a palm tree .. then felt bad for it. lol it's getting bigger.
I have 3 pineapples in my back yard!!!
I loved this video so interesting. Thank you.
I miss your channel! ok lets make a date to patch up... haha.. keep on inspiring us Summer!
I've had good luck with a home mix 1 C water, a squirt of liquid dish soap, a 1/2 tsp. liquid fert. and 1/2 tsp. cooking oil....mix it up spray it on leave a minute or 2 no longer...it loostens hard scale and coats pest bugs..then they remove easily, when rinsed off thoroughly. Do not save mix after use. Repeat as needed.
Loved the tour, maybe you will go back sometime so we can learn about more plants! I live in Northeastern Massachusetts and the native white petaled waterlily is Nymphaea odorata. I have photos took from a pond in Kingston, NH but I don’t know how to post them here.
Omg, so much to learn I love it all.
Paul Cooper: Don’t eat anything 🤨
Summer: Yummy extra floral nectaries 🤤
Really enjoying this, but the Sarracenia you showed was labeled purpurea. It was leucophylla, or a hybrid with leucophylla.
Beautiful collection and awesome tour and discussion! The Sarracenia species shown at 26:23 isn't S. purpurea as labeled in the video, but looks like S. leucophylla or a hybrid of that species.
I have a centipede living in one of my platycerium pots and it's the only one that has high resistance to hard scale bugs. I think he must run up and down the leaves at night to find bugs.
Amazing tour! really inspiring - I WANT TO LIVE THERE!
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oh my god, i was reading abt carlos magdalena & the new giant lilypad species tht was just identified this year (victoria boliviana?) and it just so cool hear him mentioned here :o
What is the hanging plant starting at 7:03? Great video!
Did you photoshop out his blue eye in the thumb? that's very kind lol
How would we be able to tell the difference between a regular mealy and the predator larvae? They look so similar. Great episode btw.
47:25 it is cauliflory :)
Way cool
what was that tree with the small lil cute yellow thorns on its stem ?? i am really curious
Mimosa all over in my country, El Salvador.
How strange. Ive never heard of this man. Mind you Im not a student of horticultural history. I really only know of a few British ones like Joseph Banks who died 1820 aged 77 after a career as a botanist and plant collector. Also involved in the development of Kew Gardens into the world's largest botanical gardens. One or two other plant hunters but mostly gardeners such as Capability Brown, Gertrude Jekyll, Humpfry Repton. And of course the Royal Horticultural Society that was founded in 1804 to promote horticulture.
We did read about a few French designers as part of our general dip into garden history on my horticulture course.
I am aware though, of the fact that US mental hospitals started planned use of horticulture as part of their treatment routines long before the UK. Although gardening had long been an activity carried out by UK asylum inmates its focus had been on food production rather than therapy. Thank you US for leading the way. (I worked in mental health).
26:23
That's not a purpurea, It's a leucophylla
haha I'm gonna do that the next time I buy a pineapple
What is the pendulous cream flower you can see behind Summer at 4:06?
Pretty sure it's Osa pulchra.
@@CornellSIPS Thank you. You're right!
Plant in the thumb looks like lungs :)
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The brazilian aristolochia gigantea won't support native swallowtail. They lay eggs mistaking the vine for a native and the caterpillars die.
Mimosa pudica ( putri malu )
22:00
Why didn’t he didn’t he talk about the platicerium😢
WHY DIDNT HE TALK ABOUT THE GIANT STEM COVERED IN SPINES HE WALKED PAST???? What is it?????
That is the kapok tree
oh mann! die müllerwerbung Mousse - WTVegan ist das lecker! ist unterirdisch!
The tap root deep pot thing is actually still debated
First
Lol!
Third!
The plant from Namibia is reminiscent of a woman's anatomy.
You're a shoe salesman. You're basically Al Bundy.
A lot of the plants look in a poor condition.
Unbelievable that you don't have any jaboticabas... my greenhouse has better stuff
I enjoyed this video so much. 🪴💕