Retail Ramble - What Wild Plants Can I Find in a Supermarket Car Park?
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Following on from my Very Local Nature Ramble (in my own back garden), I promised I would look around a supermarket car park. So let's do that...
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*Afterthoughts & Addenda*
*Plant Identification* - I might have appeared more confident than I really am about some of the plant IDs in this video - especially as some of the specimens here will have been atypical due to harsh growing conditions. I'm fairly confident about the Pearlwort (and I am seeing this plant in every car park I visit now) Happy to receive corrections on anything - it'll help if you include a timestamp and mention the distinguishing features!
Hahaha I love when the roses are
Oh no the PH water level is too high
Dandelions: haha yeah concrete
I do love your content and rewathing your videos always spark joy
Hmm maybe I should try the honey recepie you were trying out
After all it is summer
5:09 Bristly Oxtongue
At 6:00, were those skeletons of hairy bittercress around the cranesbill? I was also wondering about the two red seedlings on the left at 13:33. I really appreciated the close-up of the Sagina; does your phone zoom in enough to do that regularly for the other plants, too?
'Sticky Willie' is also called 'bedstraw;' it was used to stuff mattresses because it has a pleasant scent, and its hooks and fibers kept it springy, rather than matting down to nothing.
@@chezmoi42 Really not sure what those two little red seedlings might be - they only just have their first true leaves, so it's hard to say - they look as though they might be slightly succulent, but looks can be deceptive at this scale - they are probably only about 5mm across the leaf span; they might be seedlings of one of the sow thistle type plants - those can turn red under stress conditions.
This is what I do with my weekends. I don't even look at weeds in a car park. I _watch another man_ look at weeds in a car park.
😂 True
Sounds interesting, you should post a video so I can watch a dude watching another dude watch weeds growing in a car park...
So far, you and over 12.000 other people 😉
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I would watch that @@chasonlapointe
People might look at him, thinking he is a crazy guy talking to himself with a camera and pointing at things. But I feel this video is important by highlighting how nature is trying its absolute best to survive in an environment that is becoming increasingly urban. Well done, Mike, for highlighting this.
It wouldn't surprise me if he's been filmed before while out on a mission.
PS I don't mean it in a nasty way.
@@simonhopkins3867yeah wouldn’t surprise me either. People love to be nosy when someone is doing something “weird”
@@simonhopkins3867 There are CCTV operators scratching their heads at the likes of AS, Geoff Marshall and the like. They likely have no idea the scale of education and joy they bring to the world at large. :)
❤Isn't there a line in a Jethro Tull song about "I saw some grass going through the pavements today? Yes! "Jack-in-the'Green"❤
I respect this aspect of him so much, making this interesting content in environments I know fine well I would be SO uncomfortable doing so in.
When you think about it though there's no good reason for it, he seems like the kind of guy you'd be happy to meet on a walk... or the supermarket, I guess.
Good video, as always. I can't help but wonder, though, if a staff member saw you, and told someone, saying:
"You know that bloke who sometimes comes in and buys one banana, one mushroom, a tin of beans and some flour? He's now out in the car park, talking to the weeds..."
More power to you, Mike. 👍👍👍
That gave me a proper giggle 🤣
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😅😅 Excellent observation! 😅😅
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That did make me laugh 😂
This made me feel quite emotional. Most people never stop and look at what’s around them. Someone might come along and chuck weed killer on all of these plants, they’re just “weeds”, but on close inspection, they’re really quite beautiful, and have a purpose in life.
This video is everything I love about this channel. Never change Mike. The world needs more Atomic Shrimp
He is so universal in his interests.
@@TheSuzberry - that’s it. He finds interest and joy in the smallest of things, and has the skill and enthusiasm to communicate those things to his audience. It’s by far my favourite channel on UA-cam.
Amen to that
I've lived in the same street over 20 years. When I first moved in almost everyone owned their own property. Since then 80% of the properties have been snapped up from people investing.
A number of properties in the street have weeds/plants even trees growing out the guttering, walls between the path and the property wall and chimney stacks.
I personally have rented properties either side of me where the tenants don't maintain the gardens for whatever reason. It used to frustrate me and I'd hop over the fence and cut it back once or twice a year. The last few year's I've just let it grow which is what I should have done years ago.
The amount of wildlife in mine and my neighbours garden's is phenomenal.
10 different species of bird's, hedgehog's, butterflies dragon flies and other things I cant recall currently.
All because people dont maintain their properties I live in a bit of an urban oasis.
It's made me a bit nervous that one day the the tennants wil move out and the owners will get someone to cut it all back and knock back an ecosystem. So in recent years I've put in a pond and let strips down the left and right sides of the garden go down to nature. Yes I've lost 40% of the garden size but i never really used the edges up to the boundary walls anyway.
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One of us! One of us! 😊
Most tenants won't do any garden work mainly because they could be transient and they don't carry gardening tools around with them. I have one such garden beside me. The grass is about 3ft high! I don't worry about that, I worry about the brambles climbing over into mine and suffocating my clematis.
@2learn4ever I lived in a block of flats with a garden. But no one could tell me who owned the garden or if it was shared. Estate agent didn't know, landlord didn't know. So for that reason I didn't dare touch it for fear of getting into trouble. It's not always laziness. Sometimes it's just beuraccracy. My sister rented a house with a garden but basically was told she couldn't do anything with it. Not allowed to plant anything or anything. Just "keep it tidy" whatever that meant.
@@Stettafire Thanks, yes I do understand. My daughter lived in London for a couple of years, the landlord told the three girls sharing that they had to look after the garden and keep the grass cut. They wondered which of their scissors would do the job!! None of the girls would have had tools. They were all in college.
It is a comforting thought that just by looking around you can see nature constantly trying to claw back space and it will go on long after we have passed.
I don’t know. A seed finds adequate conditions to sprout and grow, it’ll do them no matter what. Seems a reasonable strategy for a successful species, even if probably doomed in particular situations.
With all the wild lettuce I think a car park salad is on the cards
yummy yummy, the car exhaust fumes only add extra flavor
Yes, indeed. However, I have tried eating it, and "Not very impressed", is the politest reaction I could give to it. It might be better cooked, but raw it was not good. Not inedible, but not great. Cleavers, on the other hand, are nice. Once briefly cooked in boiling water, which destroys the clinging hooks, it's a pleasant green vegetable. I have enjoyed it mixed with Chickweed.
@@brianartillery Yes, I like adding the blanched cleavers to a sauce of mustard & sour cream as a side for pork. The mustard blends well with their slight bitterness. Chickweed is sweet enough to use in salads, though I also use it chopped and tossed into a toasted flour soup at the last minute.
I wouldn't recommend this. Wild lettuce, aka lactuca virosa, is slightly poisonous. In ancient Egypt and Rome and Medieval the dried milky juice ("Lactucarium") was used as a painkiller and sleeping aid before opium was known. For little animals like guineapigs or rabbits it can be deadly poisonous, humans will only get a bad headache and vomit. All lactuca species have that bitter milky juice. Even the lettuce you can buy at the grocery store still makes you a little sleepy if you eat the big stalks and the core.
Chickweed is delicious, and it can be easily grown in every garden or flower pot. On a parking lot I would leave it for the sparrows.
Not a good idea, any plant there is likely contaminated by pollutants.
You could do an opposite / companion video to this, where you visit somewhere man-made that has been reclaimed by nature, and point out what's remaining of human influence. I'm thinking of things like disused railway lines, where the remains of platforms, tracks, station buildings etc are only visible if you're specifically looking.
Oh what an absolutely charming suggestion!
He has done something similar on random walks, though it wasn't a dedicated video. There was an old train line somewhere which is barely recognisable which he was showing around.
Like Chernobyl ?
If I can presume to speak for others for just a second, that genuine thrill and interest that you show for all manner of things is exactly why we watch your videos! Thank you for the continual reminder of what a wonderful world this is, and blessings to you Mr Shrimp!
Whenever I rewatch WALL-E from now on, I shall be pondering just how badly we had to mess up the planet in that timeline for there to be no plants in the aftermath for so long.
I use Eve's Theme as my ringtone, Wall-E is such a good movie
dang..
It always delights me, when plants find a way to take hold in the most unlikely placed. Glad to see, I'm not the only one!
Saturday mornings are made for watching someone wandering around a car park pointing at things! \o/
I love the determination of nature, mosses have slowly been turning my terrace into a forest floor for the past 7 years, and I have no intention of stopping it, 1 million shades of green mosses are way more beautiful than grey slabs anyway
So happy to hear this. ❤
It rains very much this spring. My house driveway has transformed into some kind of Japanese moss garden. Velvet emerald green, fluffy apple green, bristly dark green, hairy silver green... I love walking barefoot over it.
There's no other feeling like walking on moss barefoot.
While watching this I went straight to Aldi’s car park checking out the flora and fauna. Who would ever have thought someone could have the power to drive you to do that? Brilliantly amazing. Thank you sir. 👍
OK, I'm 3.10 in, and had to pause to say that when I was at school, a "sticky willie" was what we called an iced finger bun.
What a delightful idea! It's lovely to see and get names to all the plants that usually just get overlooked and dismissed as untidy weeds. Hurray for Nature! It will find a way wherever it gets the slightest chance.
how are you commenting 2 weeks ago when this came out 1 minute ago
@@Hiyoriwootearly access to these videos
@@Scanixon cheers. need to look into that!
@@Hiyoriwoot Magic! 🪄😆
Ah...so I'm not just neglecting weeding my patio, I'm actually encouraging nature! If everyone else gets no-mow may, can i have "just leave it June"?
As long you don't plant any of your own flowers/plants/herbs in there since there are many weeds that either disrupt the growth or in a sense eat the planted flowers/plants/herbs. Well around the patio I mean not in the cracks
June In Bloom, they call it.
@@UnkownWonders I've got herbs in pots on the patio. They seem to be doing ok.
Don't Make It Die July ?
@UnknownWonders actually it's usually the opposite. Wild plants will usually outcompete the planted ones. Reason being the wild ones have adapted to their environment and the planted ones haven't.
However, as gardeners we do need to stop obsessing so much about plants competing. Two plants side by side can exist without harming the other. They don't "eat" each other, they compete for the same resources. But if enough resources exist then they can exist quite happily. Folk are always leaving giant spaces in their gardens of nothing when really they don't need to. A plant will tell you in a very obvious manner when it's struggling.
I think this is a new sub-genre of Auditing video... the Urban Nature Audit
I’m operating on absolutely no sleep after a pretty rubbish week and this video was a balm for the soul. This is absolutely my jam. You’re far better at plants than I am, but I love pointing out the little concrete weeds, even if I don’t know their names. I love things that grow despite our best efforts to keep them from growing. Thank you, Shrimp!!!
Nature is a wonderful thing and a force to be reckoned with
We had a full-on tomato plant grow in the loading bay. Just sprouted up from some produce scraps. It was quite the sight.
This is how I get plants for my garden - seedlings growing in "places where they shouldn't be", and garden escapes.
Two summers ago I rescued a couple of zinnia seedlings from a crack in the footpath, and they rewarded me with STUNNING purple and dark orange flowers. ❤ I saved the seeds, too. 👍
Hope springs eternal....thanks Mike for lifting my heart and making me smile with joy to know there are others who champion nature.
When you were talking about the 5cm version of what grows larger in your garden, it put me in mind of alpine or bonsai plants. How fitting you should get a new plant introduction as a reward at the end. Thanks for bringing us along!
Morrison staff looking at the CCTV saying Boss there a fella in a bright colour shirt he pointing at the weeds and looks like he talking to him self .
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Also pointing a camera at the weeds haha
I was thinking the same thing. I'm surprised nobody came out to check in on him.
Well, there is no law against that!
Not yet.
I buy plants and flowers, feed them, make sure they have optimal sunlight, care for them, and they die in days.
These plants find concrete and flourish 😂
Nature is a fickle mistress, fascinating.
Thanks for the brilliant video as always.
That procumbent pearlwort is a beauty! I completely understand your excitement and share your enthusiasm! And hidden in plain sight in a crack in the car park! Great find!
I never thought I would obtain so much happiness while watching Mr Shrimp finding plants in a car park but here I am. I have been having a very hard time lately and your videos just give me so much hope, happiness and joy. Thank you sooooo much Mr. Shrimp for being you and creating videos.
I was really interested in the manhole cover. I can imagine using it as the base for making a printed canvas artwork, even a t-shirt or canvas bag. Thanks for taking us on your ramble.
There's an artist/company in Berlin that does that! They look great! ua-cam.com/video/ITOXCt-JQhc/v-deo.html
I am often in awe of how resilient nature is. It just finds a way despite man's attempts to disrupt, control, exploit...
Only white men. Other cultures live in harmony with nature.
You've started something now, Shrimp. There's going to be loads of us fans, going around Supermarket carparks videoing and looking at plants 😂. If I get arrested, can I tell them my muse made me want to do it ? 😂.
One side of the council neglected street of terraced houses where I live gets regularly flooded .With council cut backs, the resulting weeds were not sprayed . There were so many plants growing where the asphalt and houses begin, that late one night, putting out my milk bottle, I surprised a hedgehog. He trundled off down a pavement where there are no trees, no front lawns and nothing but thick weeds! It was a precious moment.Even the potholes in the road had weeds and grass growig A neighbour and I worked out that if we barred all the cars in our street, we woud have a garden in 6 months.There were even self seeded antirrhinums growing ,again through the pavement ,under his window.
Wonderful nature.
This little video has made me so happy. I hope you know how much joy your work brings to so many of us. I’m going through some really difficult things right now which often make me feel anxious and ill, but your videos are food for the soul. Thank you for all you do.
Anyone else thought of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi in reverse?
Great video as always. Thank you.
A railway track runs alongside that carpark. Imagine an airborne seed landing on a train and being transported miles before finding somewhere to germinate!
Earlier this year, I picked wild garlic from woods a dozen miles away or more - when I got home, I picked off a couple of tiny snails and let them go in the garden - I like to imagine they felt like explorers discovering a new continent.
I won't be looking at car parks the same again now.
I love that little greens. Pearlwort grows here too, and in early spring there are growing lots of hunger flowers (Draba verna) in the pavement crevices. They are so tiny and so tough!
In my garden there is a place where the former owner had built a shack. We removed the shack, but not the concrete foundation. We covered it with some leftover soil from a nearby farm and waited for nature doing her job.
5 years later it is a symphony of colours, humming with insects, butterflies and grasshoppers, little ladybugs and giant hornets. I'm so excited about this! I don't know all English plant names, so I'll give the latin ones.
Yellow St.John's wort (Hypericum perforatum), lots of purple pink Silene coronaria, white umbrellas of wild carrot (Daucus carota) and clouds of white stars from Erigeron annuus, blue Echium vulgare, pink clover (Trifolium pratense), huge white candles of Melilotus alba and Verbascum lychnitis, baby pink clouds of Vicia sepium and a lot more with only a few individuals. I was able to identify 64 species on 10 square meters.
Herbs like savory, rosemary, oregano and lavender have sown themselves and grow like weed out of the pavement. Wild strawberries are very invasive, but I rather eat them (strawberry muffins!) than remove them. Oh, and the ants have carried violet seeds (Viola odorata) all over my garden. Lawn is replaced by violet leaves and moss. No more lawn mowing!
My neighbours keep telling me to "remove that weed". IT IS NO WEED, IT IS FLOWERS!
Greetings from Germany.
I hope you turn this into a series Mike, seeing how nature flourishes in the most unexpected places is a real treat. I'd like to see what a more saline environment near you has for us, so maybe a boat deck or something similar would be cool?
This is fantastic! This is the only person, who could pull something like this off, so well. Thanks for the video.
It's so wholesome to hear you so happy to have found that new plant! This is why you're one of the best UA-cam channels 😁
I live in region of Australia that got devastated by floods 2 years and back in 2017, some places have been abandoned since 2017, it’s pretty amazing just how quickly nature will reclaim her territory.
Weeds get little love but they are the pioneer settlers the plant kingdom. Forging off into the unknown, unforgiving tarmac desert to prepare the land for the more familiar trees and shrubs we know and love. They deserve more recognition.
Impressive identification skills!
Thank you Mr Shrimp, this gladdens my heart.
The triffids!😂
This was an interesting walk! That last tiny plant ... I think I saw it in the path at my allotment garden, I'll have a closer look.
Lovely video, and I was pleased with the appearance of mosses, which I have an endless fascination with. I wonder if the weeds of Waitrose will be more exotic and posher than the weeds of Lidl? 😁
When I was growing up in the area, that was all undeveloped right up to the rugby club and I'd take the dog walking all day in the little woods and fields and just explore. Foraging in Morrisons is just not quite the same.
You know, your excitement about finding a new (to you) species of plant makes me melancholic for my youth. I distinctly remember being excited about new sights, sounds and smells. Every day was an adventure, filled with discoveries. I want that feeling back.
This video really speaks to me. Weeds growing in cracks is my favorite aspect of urban landscaping. The little things definitely make a random spot on the street look more cheerful, and I like seeing them grow over the boring grass they put everywhere
My grandma used to point out all the insects and plants when i was younger. I wish i had more time to learn from her. I still get excited if i find something she would point out or if i find rolly pollies.
I’ll never look at a parking lot the same way again!!
Behind the barrier.
In & Out.
Get in trouble, tsk.
What they gonna do?
Scuse me sir, what you doing there?
I was just taking some pictures of these fine plants, to educate my views/friends.
Oh, ok then, have a nice day sir.
A little treat, indeed. What a gem.
In reality, 99% of the time, nobody cares. They just think it's some weirdo UA-camr with a camera. in the 1% when there's a perceived problem it actually provides great video content! Win, win!
@@spiritusinfinitus
Perception is key.
❤Loved this!!! Nature triumphant over mankind!!!😂
It's really comforting for some reason to remember that, all lf these plants, however small and seemingly insignificant, all have names. Rather than just all being some monolithic collective of "weeds"; they're all their own unique bits lf green trying their best to make do with wherever they've lined up. It also brings back memories of childhood curiosity... Too many people my age (highschool) do not take any notice of the beauty around us. Thank you for making this video- I've wanted to see somebody do this forever.
I love a parking lot/strip mall plant ramble! I took an herb/wild plant class ages ago and the ramble around uncultivated, sometimes paved areas to identify plants was one of my favorite activities. Herbaceous tenacity still pleasantly surprises me to this day.
One of the best channels on youtube!!
Every time your intro music plays, or the supermarket Musak, I get so very happy!!!!
Thanks so much for the content man! :D
The Day of the Triffids 😮.Thanks Atomic Shrimp 🦐😊👍
So happy to find this video. One of my favourite hobbies as a kid was to study the micro-gardens in pavement cracks in the unmaintained lots around my school. It's so incredible to see how a whole miniature ecosystem can persist in such circumstances.
I absolutely love your enthusiasm for nature! It is refreshing to see excitement over a new beautiful plant surviving in a tiny bit of soil. It truly is remarkable & made my day! Thank you! 😊
transforming everyday life into an adventure
I've got a yard that I sadly didn't take care of for about 7-8 years. Well I got around to taking care of it, but in that time I had trees (maples of some sort, I believe) grow that were taller than me. I was worried that their roots had dug into my yard's foundations. I pulled on them and was very surprised as they came up very easily. They had grown entirely in the fairly thin layer of detritus covering the corners of my yard. The roots just spread out far across the yard but didn't penetrate into any stone.
It's truly amazing how these plants find harsh conditions to survive and thrive in them.
Just only yesterday I noticed ( very hard not to) 4 Giant Hogweed plants in full flower about 8 feet tall in The Dunelm Mill car park in Darlington. They were totally enclosed between 2 boundary fences and out off human reach. All wild native plants should be given a place to grow even the more dangerous ones!
This video reminds me of the time a tomato seed began growing into a little tomato plant behind the faucet of the kitchen sink at my mum and dads place.
They didn't know the wood behind the faucet was going bad, but it was decomposed enough for a rouge tomato seed to germinate and take root.
Once discovered (much to our amusement) we repotted it and fixed the sink.
That was the summer of faucet tomato sandwiches.
Plants really will try to grow anywhere!
I love the persistence of nature versus the attempts we make to suppress her. Thank you, Mike, for showing us all these encouraging examples. 😊.
I love the little plants that grow in the cracks. They often have so much detail for being so small. Maybe it's also because you look at them against a plain backdrop.
There was a gas station near my house as a teenager that was abandoned and it was crazy how quickly it went from an asphalt parking lot to a part of the forest. Nature just ate it up. As soon as humans stop cutting it back the forest just marches in and takes the land back.
Life always finds a way Mr Shrimp
I'm imagining a security guard or two watching the ramble around the carpark - bewildered trying to work out what he's doing 😆
Nature is amazing. Thanks for sharing, a lovely start to my Saturday morning.
It's likely they come around once a year and spray weedkiller too, if that's the case then the little guys there are truly heroes of the car park nature world
This adventure reminds me of the way I used to, and we all used to, examine the world closely as children. I sincerely enjoyed this ramble, and I hope we can go on more rambles in unexpected/unassuming locations in the future. Thank you!
I thoroughly enjoyed this, please do this again and/or more often, car parks, nature walks etc with plant identification is always a treat to watch. oh, and can you do your little forest in your backyard as well please that looks wonderful. Thank you again.
looked forward to this. Ever since downloading a plant id app I've learned about a lot of my local area's plants. Last year I noticed a tomato plant growing in cracks of the asphalt at my local department store. I had theorized it might've gotten there from a tomato that fell while a local food pantry came to pick up donations.
Such a useful channel. Not only did I learn that the visual problems I had were "Scintillating Scotoma", I just found out that the annoying weed in our garden is called "Bindweed". Once in a while things just seem to synchronise with this channel 😊
I absolutely loved this, I’m checking out everything in my little garden which is paved and taking more notice when I’m out doggy walking. Fab idea😀😀
As a professional gardener willow herb is amongst my favourite weeds because it puts up very little fight when you've got to pull the little buggers out
being in a big city, disturbed soil plants like these are what I see the most, but an entirely different cast since I'm in Canada:
- plantain
- burdock
- lambsquarters
- motherwort
- garlic mustard
- Virginia creeper
- riverbank grape
- bittersweet nightshade
- Canada goldenrod
- Staghorn sumac
- pineappleweed
- curly dock
- tansy
- mustards of all kinds
... and a whole lot of others that aren't quite as common
"I love the vetches!" Made me chuckle. Don't know why.
In a seaside town my family used to frequent there was a plant growing out of some stone stairs. It wasn't just a small weed, it had grown a wooden trunk and it was probably at least 50cm high. I can only imagine that somehow winds carried some dirt into the cracks in the stairs, and then seeds from a plant that someone was growing on their balcony.
I really enjoyed this. Whenever I see things coming up through the pavement all I can think of is "plant... plant... plant... Dandelion... plant."
Brilliant idea for a video. It's amazing that everwhere can be an ecosystem.
Thank you for the enjoyable videos mr shrimp, the look round your garden was a tutorial! It’s wonderful how these wildflowers cling on, I remember when speedwell and scarlet pimpernel were abundant in most veg gardens. At my village school in Devon we would eat the new young leaves of hawthorn in the spring. We called them bread and cheese!
My favorite part 14:28. I tend to do silly things which take me away into my own head and often have me poised in an ungainly manner, things such as watching ants or other bugs or squeezing the seed pods on yellow wood sorrel, or just admiring an especially beautiful clump of moss. When I get "caught" by the gaze of another and become embarrassed, I say something weird and laugh at myself. This video reminds me of that.
The streets are getting more and more wild and overgrown with little flowers popping up between paving stones even in London, I'd really like to see like a ASMR video where you just walk around an unkempt town looking at the wild plants growing out of walls and around the bottom of street lamps and identifying them with screen text. just an idea.
Thanks - I have a few more of these planned, but I hadn't thought of inner-city environs - I'll add that to the ideas list!
@@AtomicShrimp excellent I hope you do one or two, make a change from the ASMRs near fields and streams.
I definitely recommend throwing on a high vis vest next time you do something similar. If someone approaches you you can say you're "doing an analysis of the local bio mass" or something equally sciency sounding. You won't be lying and people will leave you alone 99% of the time
Hardhat, clipboard or some piece of equipment on a beaten-up tripod
@@AtomicShrimp exactly lol
Great video. We do this around the edge of our playground in school. Ribwort plantain, scarlet pimpernel and groundsel seem to be the most common ones we find.
Ah! We have Crane's Bill growing in our garden. We have a large rectangular plant pot thing that we initially seeded with native wildflowers, and while some of those have returned, we've also got some guests. Things that are growing that we definitely didnt plant include Crane's Bill, Herb Robert, and something that might be a wild lettuce of some sort. There's also something that looks remarkably like a plantain (Plantago) but I can't be sure.
We also have what I believe to be some sort of willowherb near the fence, but I can't identify it. They really shot up over spring and have these lovely tiny pink flowers with white things inside (stamens and such probably). I think there might be both Great Willowherb and Hoary Willowherb but they all look so similar it could be anything. Given the height and fast growth, some of them might even be American Willowherb.
Me watching a man identifying plants in a car park yet still being entertained, especially when he found some nipplewort.
Next weeks video: foraging in a car park
Excited to see herb robert make an appearance! I'm out in Canada and the stuff is all over our property, subtle compared to a lot of the plants we get but the flowers are very nice to see, a nice bit of extra colour.
Your knowledge of plants is impressive, and it's very interesting to see how many different things can be in such an unfriendly environment.
Mr. Shrimp could survive the apocalypse better than any doomsday prepper out there. He knows how to forage for mushrooms and plants and knows how to properly cook them whilst having a very calm and collected way of doing such things.
In most apocalyptic scenarios I wouldn't recommend eating any plants from outside for a while.
It's so nice to witness your fascination for nature
This video made me think of climate change.
That nature is probably not too annoyed with the change, nature WILL persevere.
The problem we're facing is that WE might not enjoy the new nature and might find it hard to live in.
And i think more people need a love for nature like Mr. Shrimp.
This video probably helps out with that!
The Earth is fine. Nature literally has all the time in the world to figure stuff out. NASA have been recording climate change on Neptune at the moment, which over the past few decades has led to the disappearance of most of the cloud cover there. They have some fascinating articles about the cause. Us humans are a bit too self-important sometimes 😉
Nature will survive, but a lot of current plants and wildlife might not.
I am always thrilled to find plants I haven’t seen before, if it is a native plant and not invasive, I collect the seed and scatter it elsewhere.
Shrimp your eye sight must be fantastic to have seen all the little tiny ones as you walked past.
Hi Mike. Your videos have become a daily ritual for my partner and me. Every day when we sit down to eat dinner, we load up your channel to watch while we eat. There's nothing else quite like it - we love your content 💜
This was a great idea and fun to watch! BC, Canada, it's called pearlwort, a nice little plant to transplant instead of killing. The one I've seen most often, in Victoria, is coral - colour is not on the Canadian or BC radar for weed or wild plants - yet matches up with ground hugging growth, distinctive round plump seed bobble, 4 petaled waxy flower, etc. Therefore it must be something else, but no idea what !
Hi from across the strait! :)
Botanist here. I love this. I do the same thing anywhere I go when I have a spare moment. :)