As a former MOBOT employee I hereby invite you just a short walk south to the Henry Shaw founded Tower Grove Park where I’m now on the Arboriculture crew overseeing the care of nearly 7,000 trees!
Tower Grove park has a lot of well maintained trees! Most parks have the obligatory euonymus growing up every tree, but not at Tower Grove Park! I appreciate the prairies they made as well.
@@Plantaddicted absolutely! We’re a level 2 arboretum, our bird garden is a hidden gem and our extensive variety of tree species sets us far apart from every other park in the city. We’re currently experimenting with air layering to try to clone a couple of our rarer species.
I've spent most of my life around Tower Grove Park, it's far and away my favorite park in the city and after becoming a birder I was pleased to learn how incredible it can be.
can't BELIEVE joey got banned from the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium the main reason i can't believe it is that joey did not get banned from the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium
Speaking of herbaria, I just made my first collection ever (!) a few weeks ago and dropped it off at the University of Nebraska Omaha's herbarium. It's apparently the first herbarium record of Lepidium didymum from the state of Nebraska. I also got to meet Dr. David Sutherland, one of the co-authors of my state's Flora. It was pretty neat. Sincerely, thank you for the abundant content you have uploaded and continue to upload, including the videos you've done NOT in the field. If it weren't for your videos teaching me what a Flora is, how to use it, and what iNaturalist is, my budding interest in plants about five years ago would have probably either fizzled and died as another phase, or worse, it might have been corrupted by a purely agri/horti-cultural lens ("what can this plant do for ME"). Been meaning to figure out how to send you a nice positive thank you message and then this video presented the perfect opportunity.
Let me respectfully say as a student in the SOPH program at NYBG, there are some horticulturists who believe plants come first and THEN people. After all, they are the foundation of all terrestrial life. It’s only about what plants can do for us, AFTER what we can do for plants. Increasing biodiveristy, increasing genetic diversity, restoring habitat, and creating landscapes that are 75 % native and 25 % non native with a focus on species that don’t have invasive growth habits is my primary focus. This is a wave of NEW horticulturists, that are coming to the rescue to the very things that give us everything. ❤😊
Please reassure me there's a reason for the all-caps title beyond clickbaiting. Yeah, I clicked, always do here, but some channels I'd otherwise enjoy I've had to abandon because of their unnecessarily shouty titles. ☮️🌵
As a baby Boomer who was living his primary years during the Reagan era, I'm glad to see someone younger than me that is fully aware of the damage that the neoconservative social and political revolution brought to Washington by Reagan has done to science and the study of nature. It gives me hope that millennials and Generation Z might actually be able to restore the funding that's been steadily eroded away over the last 40 years of the study of science and all things in the natural world. Thank you!
They were about to buy identitarianism is kind of getting in the way. Hope it drops off soon but everything is a social-media Psy-op these days so hard to tell.
I love the Missouri Botanical Garden! It's great to know that leading botanical work is happening in a solidly midwestern working-man's town near where I grew up. Thanks for doing what you do!
"Roadside Botany" is accessible to us plant scientists/botanists who have disabilities that affect our ability to hike into someplace. And you can still do work no one else is actually doing, even if it is "easy pickings".
@@spidrawebster I suspect a lot of it isn't being done *because* it is easy pickings - lots of people think you have to go somewhere difficult to access to find rare species, when sometimes they're just overlooked in your own literal back yard...
Worse than Trump IMO, because he did more real damage in the long-term. Aside from anything else, he stymied research on HIV that could have furthered the goals of the National Cancer Act of 1971, all the while dog-whistling to a demographic whose worldview was not far from the Westboro Baptists.
You, CPBBD, is a big huge influence on me. I let my backyard and front lawn start going wild because of you. I just mow the outside so the Karen's don't report me like they did a few years ago when I got a warning letter.
I very (VERY) briefly was a student worker at my colleges herbarium. I learned so much about plants, science, and the importance of proper documentation in a short time! The smell is heavenly. I still swing by during the "open house" days to hang out and see what folks are working on. Thanks for highlighting this stuff- and everything else
If someone says what's the point of keeping this slap their piehole with a flavourless Cavendish banana soaked in pink public batroom dispenser soap and say AL from Chicago made you a giftbox.
St. Louis is kind of a weird town. It's an obscure medium sized city but strangely has some important world-wide level things. The World Chess Hall of Fame being in St. Louis is so weird yet it's a thing.
Administrators who know *The Cost of Everything, and the Value of Nothing* I vote this for best #1 Top Saying, ever, in the English language. Thank you Oscar Wilde. And thanks, too, to *Animals as Leaders* , who've done their bit to preserve the expression for future generations by using it as the name of one of their songs. (With the added bonus that we can now use almost all Capital Letters when quoting it, from now on, without getting taken in for questioning by the grammatical/style-guide version of the guys who once took Opa Fritz for a little ride, long ago, for being too familiar with the prisoners, and having them round for lunch at his place, and then took him back home, terrified.
High-density storage 🍎👍 Yeah, Reagan is to blame for a lot of things. I’m glad you appreciate that even though you probably weren’t that old when he was in office. I was, and it was something to behold.
What do you think the worst thing Reagan did was? I always hear from older people that lived through his admin and were critical of him that it was very much a notable turning point in the country
The 'project' room is madness, reminds me of my high school agriculture class were they made us crawl over hill and dale to collect 50 different types of grasses and plants. The real arsehole act was it had to get done, you didn't do it there was a big hit to grades, being I was technically an academic moron- I needed them grades! What they didn't tell you was that some you'd collect in high summer when it was +45C, staggering around getting your ears burnt off and the other half was winters at -5C going white and wishing for the sweet release of death.
Way back when I took some plant ID courses at the local community college, the first thing we learned was how to correctly and neatly press plants. Only ever used it in those classes, but I can now also appreciate why one would need to stick to pressing the ever living sh*t out of plants, if they're going to be stored for a million years... oh, and also, that portion of the college was turned into the "South Bay Botanical Garden" in SoCal/SD/Chula Vista some time ago, and I think that's pretty neat. They had a couple of massive Floss Silk trees there that make (made? not sure if they're still there) the place look downright wicked.
Any interest in posting a tutorial online? I bought a flower press forever ago, and was just standing and staring at it unopened in the box thinking that there’s probably a right way and a wrong way to use it.
Reagan caused enormous damage to this country. He is also responsible for the mental health crisis we face in this country and certainly increased homelessness when he shut down so many hospitals, clinic, etc.m and dumped the patients on the street. We have a 20 year old cat who runs the house. At night she wanders around caterwauling at the top of her lungs. Off to the vet, again. I suspect she is sundowning. My research driven heart wishes I was decades younger, healthy and digging through the herbarium files. Oh joy!
you have to dig a little deeper, it wasn't Reagan per se, Reagan was elected because of a dark money bill pushed through congress to get rid of Carter because Carter expected Israel to act like an adult.
Everyone was horrified by 1981 that seattles streets were rife with kids, mentally, and or homeless people. The connection to Reagan’s policies was obvious. Since then……..😢. Astronomically worse.
Small potatoes to the current regime and their failed policies. Also if they manage to rig it for kamaletoe, heaven help us all. You haven't seen anything yet.
Hey Joey, just thought I'd let you know the director of the herbarium at Oregon State is a fan of yours and occasionally includes some of your work in his presentations to students.
I live very close to the Missouri botanical gardens and they used to work their back in the mid 90s at the Kemper Center. it is one of the best botanical gardens I’ve been to. We are truly blessed to have it in our town. And it’s great to see that you were here visiting. EDIT: kudos on the Let Them Eat Jellybeans album cover! I remember buying that album when I was a teenager back in the 80’s. It’s one of my favorite albums of all time! Jello and Alternative Tentacles have put out some great albums!
6:19 ignorant means, the lack of knowledge on a subject. It shouldn't be used for malicious purposes. If someone calls you ignorant & you take offense to it... you just might be ignorant 😂. I'm personally ignorant when it comes to botany, that's why I like to watch this channel. Just trying to not be ignorant.
I like your informative and humorous videos in general, but this one was uber f-ing cool bro. I had no idea how plants were indexed and preserved. Those guys who keep it all up rock major rivers of awesomeness. It would be amazing to wander through there and ponder while smelling and hearing them rustle while going through the pages. Genuf-ng awesome!
Well that was weird. For the first time I was wondering how the herbarium would save cacti. And the first plant you show is a cactus. Thanks for that and everything else too. ✌️
Despite botany not at all being my area, as a data nerd I got the same 'I need to poop' excited feeling watching this that I get when heading into my favourite research libraries lol
This is incredible; thank you for the tour and showing the importance of herbaria ! This seems like a dream come true to walk through and explore- what a beautiful place and great people who are doing important work
As a STL resident, nothing warms my cold, dead heart more than someone from Chicago talking about how nice Saint Louis is. Glad you enjoyed your visit! MOBOT is incredible and we're fortunate to have it.
This is the first I've heard of herbaria. Thank you for spreading this around. I doubt I know many people who would have the first clue about what's going on there.
I could have cried today, a group of Ozzie grasstrees planted in 86 or 87, grown to 8ft tall, had been completely decimated by the current owner, there was 3 of them and would have been worth big money if sold, but they removed whole garden for grass
I had the privilege of meeting and learning from Alex Floyd (RIP), an Australian logger turned botanist, he created a floral ID system for Australian plants and had a grass that is only known to be found in 4 locations in my area, named after him, he created Coffs Harbour botanical gardens from a rubbish tip and is noted as 1 of the best in the country, having a lot of natural areas and rare natives they put in, Alex used to run the herbarium, right up until he couldn't; I have a lot of respect for people who are able to handle working in that smell, I can't do it lol
While you are in the St. Louis area, check out Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit. The diversity there is incredible. I believe MOBOT staff take care of the park, or they have a partnership. If you have never been, I highly recommend!
Not really... The L+C plants mostly went to Philadelphia and were not really that significant compared even to Nuttall making the same trip a few years later. How much Nuttall benefited from the L+C plants while working with Barton in Philadelphia is unclear. St. Louis became a botany town thirty years later mainly through educated German immigrants setting up a correspondence and specimen collection network in partnership with New York and Harvard and that didn't really get influential until the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Engelmann is the brains behind it all. Shaw just paid the bill.
@@geritheobald7768 Shaw's money didn't go towards scientific pursuits until at least after 1859 and really didn't get going until the 1870s. Engelmann set it all up and Trelease made it permanent. It's kind of hard to directly attribute it to Henry Shaw other than his being rich and cooperative.
I used to work at the Purdue Kreibel Herbarium and my job was to go through a collection from St. Kitts Nevis from the 1970s. They were much better pressed than the first collection you showed and identified but the identifier had such horrible cursive handwriting we had to go back to literature to try and figure out what was written. I also did a project with seeds from the herbarium collection, we had 30 year old seeds that germinated from the specimens.
As someone who loves roadside botany, I think Elsa Zardini should be given sainthood. Elsa's image should be etched onto gold coins or printed on stamps in Paraguay.
Been coming to the garden for years and years. Going again this weekend. The Japanese Heritage festival they throw over the labor day weekend is really neat.
Herbariums are being closed all over the world. Here in Australia my 'local' Herbarium at Rockhampton got the sgaft ten years ago. The costs were not commensurate with the income produced and what little income went towards saving the associated ZOO. The densely populated subtropical greenhouse was just abandoned to neglect and to grow spider webs. I spoke to a janitor/groundsman. I couldn't find the collections. I gave up and watched the captive chimps sulk in a corner for a half hour then drive away too depressed to communicate my dismay.
The pursuit of knowledge just for the sake of pursuit of knowledge. Twenty ought years ago I was watching an episode of Jeopardy. It was student night. Alex asks the young guy from the prestigious law university, 'Do you envision yourself one day working for one of the major law firms in the country?' The guy replies, "Nah, I'm going to go into lobbying. That's where all of the money is." God Bless America!
I was born in St Louis (have resided in Australia for the majority of my life) and spent some very happy hours as a wee tacker toddling around these Botanic Gardens. Bloody delighted to see you do an episode from the Herbarium. Love your work ❤
1:30 Never forget, that Ayn Rand, who's word is tantamount to God in their circles, professed a unique love for one William Edward Hickman. Who kidnapped and murdered a twelve year old girl, and then propped up her dead body in his car to make appearances. Describing him she said: "Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should," she wrote, gushing that Hickman had "no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'" This is their idol. At one point I recall maybe Ted Cruz or someone bragging about how all his interns must read her novels... Non negotiable. And a book report, perhaps? Can't make this stuff up guys, although I'm not sure it was actually Ted Cruz...
US citizens mental health SHOULD be more important than funding foreign wars or letting millions of illegal aliens in and renting hotel rooms for them. Just saying.
It was actually like the 7th plant I looked up but due to the low attention span of most people today it was the second clip I put in to serve as lowest common denominator clickbait to keep people watching and not realize that they're being educated
I didn't realize the Missouri Botanical Garden was such a huge deal country-wide! I enjoy it as a lovely spot in St. Louis, but I didn't know most other similar spots nationally didn't have as wide a selection/collection as this location. There's more there than I'd ever even care to search for! 😵💫
I didn't realize either growing up in St Charles County. As an adult I've visited a handful of other botanical gardens. The one in Memphis is nice but not nearly as good as MOBG. The only other one that was comparable was in Amsterdam. It was absolutely amazing but then again just being in Amsterdam was amazing to me.
Wow! I'm pleasantly surprised. I had thought the herbarium was just a vapid collection of roses and hydrangeae. I may check it out next time I'm in town.
Omg, you’re in my childhood Disneyworld. The MO Botanical Gardens are one of my fav places on the planet! And to have YOU say “reaganomics” in there with your dog 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
I LOVE the botanical garden, its in Saint louis because Henery Shaw, a wealthy St Louisan donated the property to the institution. We love it as it really is one of the most beautiful attractions in the city. Japanese festivals are every Labor day weekend!
Can't those specimens that are just smushed in there be rehydrated and re-pressed properly? I know that it can be done with insects ( as ive done it ) but not too sure about flora 🤷
I have to laugh because I worked on the Zardini collection at MOBOT about 25 years ago. Yeah, it's a pretty bad collection but my boss (Jim Solomon) thought someone should tackle it. I've heard from friends who still work there that a couple other people have tried to finish the project but, like me, gave up as well.
20:55 that raises questions on what type of agency were the herbariums - private or public, an extension of an university or standalone nonprofit that solely rely on a cycle of grants, volunteer staff and large donors to operate? Were there lobbyists involved for an institution to cut their program to allocate funds to something else? If we can dig into that data on detailed reasons for failure of other herbariums it can help with solutions to keep the surviving programs healthy and running for a long time.
As a former MOBOT employee I hereby invite you just a short walk south to the Henry Shaw founded Tower Grove Park where I’m now on the Arboriculture crew overseeing the care of nearly 7,000 trees!
Tower Grove park has a lot of well maintained trees! Most parks have the obligatory euonymus growing up every tree, but not at Tower Grove Park! I appreciate the prairies they made as well.
@@Plantaddicted absolutely! We’re a level 2 arboretum, our bird garden is a hidden gem and our extensive variety of tree species sets us far apart from every other park in the city. We’re currently experimenting with air layering to try to clone a couple of our rarer species.
@@Plantaddicted we also have the oldest greenhouse west of the Mississippi
i take great inspiration from mr shaw's feeling the need for a place to take his botanical endeavors when the city gets too rough with the elements.
I've spent most of my life around Tower Grove Park, it's far and away my favorite park in the city and after becoming a birder I was pleased to learn how incredible it can be.
can't BELIEVE joey got banned from the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium
the main reason i can't believe it is that joey did not get banned from the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium
'..the living skin of the earth." That's Chicago-accented poetry.
Speaking of herbaria, I just made my first collection ever (!) a few weeks ago and dropped it off at the University of Nebraska Omaha's herbarium. It's apparently the first herbarium record of Lepidium didymum from the state of Nebraska. I also got to meet Dr. David Sutherland, one of the co-authors of my state's Flora. It was pretty neat.
Sincerely, thank you for the abundant content you have uploaded and continue to upload, including the videos you've done NOT in the field. If it weren't for your videos teaching me what a Flora is, how to use it, and what iNaturalist is, my budding interest in plants about five years ago would have probably either fizzled and died as another phase, or worse, it might have been corrupted by a purely agri/horti-cultural lens ("what can this plant do for ME").
Been meaning to figure out how to send you a nice positive thank you message and then this video presented the perfect opportunity.
Dude, that's so badass. Keep up the firsts
Very cool.
Let me respectfully say as a student in the SOPH program at NYBG, there are some horticulturists who believe plants come first and THEN people. After all, they are the foundation of all terrestrial life.
It’s only about what plants can do for us, AFTER what we can do for plants. Increasing biodiveristy, increasing genetic diversity, restoring habitat, and creating landscapes that are 75 % native and 25 % non native with a focus on species that don’t have invasive growth habits is my primary focus. This is a wave of NEW horticulturists, that are coming to the rescue to the very things that give us everything. ❤😊
Banned From the Herbarium is my favorite GG Allen record.
His old stuff was way better.
@@jaredknapp8886we were into him before he was cool.
Only the brave use heroin to get wiser in life
Please reassure me there's a reason for the all-caps title beyond clickbaiting.
Yeah, I clicked, always do here, but some channels I'd otherwise enjoy I've had to abandon because of their unnecessarily shouty titles. ☮️🌵
This was about GG. Go away or I will toss a fresh or not fresh turd.
As a baby Boomer who was living his primary years during the Reagan era, I'm glad to see someone younger than me that is fully aware of the damage that the neoconservative social and political revolution brought to Washington by Reagan has done to science and the study of nature.
It gives me hope that millennials and Generation Z might actually be able to restore the funding that's been steadily eroded away over the last 40 years of the study of science and all things in the natural world. Thank you!
They were about to buy identitarianism is kind of getting in the way. Hope it drops off soon but everything is a social-media Psy-op these days so hard to tell.
I love the Missouri Botanical Garden! It's great to know that leading botanical work is happening in a solidly midwestern working-man's town near where I grew up. Thanks for doing what you do!
I am a gardener for the NYC Parks dept and the Missouri Botanical Garden's website is my 1st stop ANY time I am looking for solid info on a plant!
The famous Peter Bernhardt, ladies and gentlemen. There he is, in his natural habitat. It's very rare to observe one in the wild.
He needs to do a long interview with Peter.
@@jeremybyington Yes, PLEASE!
😂 I used to famous (don't you "say hello, Peter" me!)
He's right, too, you know. 😊
It might be a misidentification. Can a specialist look into this and tell us if it's a real Peter Bernhardt?
"Roadside Botany" is accessible to us plant scientists/botanists who have disabilities that affect our ability to hike into someplace. And you can still do work no one else is actually doing, even if it is "easy pickings".
@@spidrawebster I suspect a lot of it isn't being done *because* it is easy pickings - lots of people think you have to go somewhere difficult to access to find rare species, when sometimes they're just overlooked in your own literal back yard...
I hereby ban you from my Herbarium. But you are welcome in my heart any time.
Finally, some one has the guts to call Reagan out.
That album cover is from 1981… the punks were calling him out back then.
I have that album!
Worse than Trump IMO, because he did more real damage in the long-term. Aside from anything else, he stymied research on HIV that could have furthered the goals of the National Cancer Act of 1971, all the while dog-whistling to a demographic whose worldview was not far from the Westboro Baptists.
Ronny RayGunZapped.
Sold drugs to supply Osama bin Laden with Surface To Air Missiles and then clinically brain dead his last 4 years in office
@@NillWill exactly! DK's lyrics STILL relevant today
Guts to call Reagan out?,their all idiots
You, CPBBD, is a big huge influence on me. I let my backyard and front lawn start going wild because of you. I just mow the outside so the Karen's don't report me like they did a few years ago when I got a warning letter.
You wouldn't throw away a CAR. You wouldn't throw away a HANDBAG. You wouldn't throw away an HERBARIUM.
Dude, you are so amazing; you never need clickbait! And herbariums rock. Thanks for another good one.
Pete is one hell of a character, keep that guy around for sure!
How did you comment 4 days ago
@@Nae_Sayerpatreon
I appreciate any guy dressed for a day out fishing in a place that dry.
@@Nae_Sayer I'm guessing here, but maybe there's early publishing for patreon or channel members or something like that?
I very (VERY) briefly was a student worker at my colleges herbarium. I learned so much about plants, science, and the importance of proper documentation in a short time!
The smell is heavenly. I still swing by during the "open house" days to hang out and see what folks are working on.
Thanks for highlighting this stuff- and everything else
If someone says what's the point of keeping this slap their piehole with a flavourless Cavendish banana soaked in pink public batroom dispenser soap and say AL from Chicago made you a giftbox.
St. Louis is kind of a weird town. It's an obscure medium sized city but strangely has some important world-wide level things. The World Chess Hall of Fame being in St. Louis is so weird yet it's a thing.
Cahokia ⛰️
Administrators who know
*The Cost of Everything, and the Value of Nothing*
I vote this for best #1 Top Saying, ever, in the English language. Thank you Oscar Wilde.
And thanks, too, to *Animals as Leaders* , who've done their bit to preserve the expression for future generations by using it as the name of one of their songs. (With the added bonus that we can now use almost all Capital Letters when quoting it, from now on, without getting taken in for questioning by the grammatical/style-guide version of the guys who once took Opa Fritz for a little ride, long ago, for being too familiar with the prisoners, and having them round for lunch at his place, and then took him back home, terrified.
High-density storage 🍎👍
Yeah, Reagan is to blame for a lot of things. I’m glad you appreciate that even though you probably weren’t that old when he was in office. I was, and it was something to behold.
What do you think the worst thing Reagan did was? I always hear from older people that lived through his admin and were critical of him that it was very much a notable turning point in the country
The 'project' room is madness, reminds me of my high school agriculture class were they made us crawl over hill and dale to collect 50 different types of grasses and plants. The real arsehole act was it had to get done, you didn't do it there was a big hit to grades, being I was technically an academic moron- I needed them grades! What they didn't tell you was that some you'd collect in high summer when it was +45C, staggering around getting your ears burnt off and the other half was winters at -5C going white and wishing for the sweet release of death.
How much did it suck in Fahrenheit?
@@jaredknapp8886 About 4 big macs and a supersized coke
Way back when I took some plant ID courses at the local community college, the first thing we learned was how to correctly and neatly press plants. Only ever used it in those classes, but I can now also appreciate why one would need to stick to pressing the ever living sh*t out of plants, if they're going to be stored for a million years... oh, and also, that portion of the college was turned into the "South Bay Botanical Garden" in SoCal/SD/Chula Vista some time ago, and I think that's pretty neat. They had a couple of massive Floss Silk trees there that make (made? not sure if they're still there) the place look downright wicked.
Any interest in posting a tutorial online? I bought a flower press forever ago, and was just standing and staring at it unopened in the box thinking that there’s probably a right way and a wrong way to use it.
Reagan caused enormous damage to this country. He is also responsible for the mental health crisis we face in this country and certainly increased homelessness when he shut down so many hospitals, clinic, etc.m and dumped the patients on the street. We have a 20 year old cat who runs the house. At night she wanders around caterwauling at the top of her lungs. Off to the vet, again. I suspect she is sundowning. My research driven heart wishes I was decades younger, healthy and digging through the herbarium files. Oh joy!
you have to dig a little deeper, it wasn't Reagan per se, Reagan was elected because of a dark money bill pushed through congress to get rid of Carter because Carter expected Israel to act like an adult.
Reagan, tea party, maga, fruit from a poisoned tree, but their insanity has about run its course.
Everyone was horrified by 1981 that seattles streets were rife with kids, mentally, and or homeless people. The connection to Reagan’s policies was obvious. Since then……..😢. Astronomically worse.
@@markhoerner2354 The nation should be ashamed.
Small potatoes to the current regime and their failed policies. Also if they manage to rig it for kamaletoe, heaven help us all. You haven't seen anything yet.
FINALLY! Justice is done from 1973 to 2024. Thank you, Peter!
big tanaks from Germany! This channel sparked my interest in botany some years ago. Love you!
Hey Joey, just thought I'd let you know the director of the herbarium at Oregon State is a fan of yours and occasionally includes some of your work in his presentations to students.
I live very close to the Missouri botanical gardens and they used to work their back in the mid 90s at the Kemper Center. it is one of the best botanical gardens I’ve been to. We are truly blessed to have it in our town. And it’s great to see that you were here visiting. EDIT: kudos on the Let Them Eat Jellybeans album cover! I remember buying that album when I was a teenager back in the 80’s. It’s one of my favorite albums of all time! Jello and Alternative Tentacles have put out some great albums!
6:19 ignorant means, the lack of knowledge on a subject. It shouldn't be used for malicious purposes.
If someone calls you ignorant & you take offense to it... you just might be ignorant 😂.
I'm personally ignorant when it comes to botany, that's why I like to watch this channel. Just trying to not be ignorant.
I like your informative and humorous videos in general, but this one was uber f-ing cool bro. I had no idea how plants were indexed and preserved. Those guys who keep it all up rock major rivers of awesomeness. It would be amazing to wander through there and ponder while smelling and hearing them rustle while going through the pages. Genuf-ng awesome!
Well that was weird. For the first time I was wondering how the herbarium would save cacti. And the first plant you show is a cactus. Thanks for that and everything else too. ✌️
Despite botany not at all being my area, as a data nerd I got the same 'I need to poop' excited feeling watching this that I get when heading into my favourite research libraries lol
This is incredible; thank you for the tour and showing the importance of herbaria ! This seems like a dream come true to walk through and explore- what a beautiful place and great people who are doing important work
I love herbaria. They're so cool. Subscribing all that time ago was such a great decision, keep up the awesome work
As a STL resident, nothing warms my cold, dead heart more than someone from Chicago talking about how nice Saint Louis is.
Glad you enjoyed your visit! MOBOT is incredible and we're fortunate to have it.
This is the first I've heard of herbaria. Thank you for spreading this around. I doubt I know many people who would have the first clue about what's going on there.
You were just about to have me "HOW DARE THEY!!"😅
These chaotic collectors causing headaches for herbarium staff 😂
I could have cried today, a group of Ozzie grasstrees planted in 86 or 87, grown to 8ft tall, had been completely decimated by the current owner, there was 3 of them and would have been worth big money if sold, but they removed whole garden for grass
I had the privilege of meeting and learning from Alex Floyd (RIP), an Australian logger turned botanist, he created a floral ID system for Australian plants and had a grass that is only known to be found in 4 locations in my area, named after him, he created Coffs Harbour botanical gardens from a rubbish tip and is noted as 1 of the best in the country, having a lot of natural areas and rare natives they put in, Alex used to run the herbarium, right up until he couldn't; I have a lot of respect for people who are able to handle working in that smell, I can't do it lol
oh and a few years back they rebuilt a cacti house
I know how you feel brother ! My neighbor just hacked down a 50 year old 30 ft lilac hedge ! And all of our mutual privacy 😢
It brings me so much joy to see you there! I grew up in Missouri
MO gang!
While you are in the St. Louis area, check out Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit. The diversity there is incredible. I believe MOBOT staff take care of the park, or they have a partnership. If you have never been, I highly recommend!
I already thought this guy rocked, but that whole thing in the beginning about Reagan just sealed the deal.
You are so appreciated. Thank you for sharing knowledge with us!
Same storage system that paper medical records use but way less exciting. What a beast of a collection.
It's located in St. Louis because of Lewis and Clark opening up the West and introducing so many plants to the world.
And Henry Shaw.
Not really... The L+C plants mostly went to Philadelphia and were not really that significant compared even to Nuttall making the same trip a few years later. How much Nuttall benefited from the L+C plants while working with Barton in Philadelphia is unclear. St. Louis became a botany town thirty years later mainly through educated German immigrants setting up a correspondence and specimen collection network in partnership with New York and Harvard and that didn't really get influential until the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Engelmann is the brains behind it all. Shaw just paid the bill.
@@geritheobald7768 Shaw's money didn't go towards scientific pursuits until at least after 1859 and really didn't get going until the 1870s. Engelmann set it all up and Trelease made it permanent. It's kind of hard to directly attribute it to Henry Shaw other than his being rich and cooperative.
@@rumexcrispus None the less MO Botanical Garden is the inheritor of Shaw's Garden and we are all the benefactors.
Pittsburgh was the Gateway to the West.
“A museum of the living skin of the earth”… I like that.
I used to work at the Purdue Kreibel Herbarium and my job was to go through a collection from St. Kitts Nevis from the 1970s. They were much better pressed than the first collection you showed and identified but the identifier had such horrible cursive handwriting we had to go back to literature to try and figure out what was written. I also did a project with seeds from the herbarium collection, we had 30 year old seeds that germinated from the specimens.
One of my favorite places to relax and unwind.
FREAKING LOVING THIS BEHIND THE SCENES!! I NEVER KNEW This sweet secret was sitting in the MOBot!! EHoah so Cool SoFun Thanks for sharing
My older brother brought home the Let Them Eat Jellybeans complication when I was 12 (38 years ago) and it really spoke to me.
That kid was like please don’t get me fired by calling our benefactors Nazis lol
I love Colin's hair.
I'm getting like a 'Silent Running' kinda vibe from this place. Bruce Dern would be proud. Needs a cute little robot. Thanks Tony. Right on.
FANTASTIC crate digging. Well preserved. Respect for your view of the wild.
Most of my patches are sewn on with dental floss, respect to the Missouri Botanical Garden mounting team.
As someone who loves roadside botany, I think Elsa Zardini should be given sainthood. Elsa's image should be etched onto gold coins or printed on stamps in Paraguay.
i dont know how to describe it but this was exactly what i was in the mood to watch
My favorite part of the MOBG experience is walking outside around the grounds. Enjoying green spaces in urban places.
Just let them know "that you have been kicked out of better places than this" on your way out.
"Say hi, Peter"
"Hi, Peter"
Didn't miss a beat.
got click baited
watched the whole thing
great video as always Joey
dont ever stop doing your thing ✊✊🤘🤘🙌🙌
Even your inside voice talking about getting mounted. Can't get much better. Purrrrrr.
Thanks. Can you do a video on sequencing these or other plant's DNA, that would be awesome!
lived in the Lou for almost 30 years. painted on the grounds many many times. the place is amazing and worth the trip indeed
The masses have spoken: MORE PETER BERNHARDT
That is really cool to see how they preserve samples. Thank you.
Been coming to the garden for years and years.
Going again this weekend.
The Japanese Heritage festival they throw over the labor day weekend is really neat.
Herbariums are being closed all over the world. Here in Australia my 'local' Herbarium at Rockhampton got the sgaft ten years ago. The costs were not commensurate with the income produced and what little income went towards saving the associated ZOO. The densely populated subtropical greenhouse was just abandoned to neglect and to grow spider webs. I spoke to a janitor/groundsman. I couldn't find the collections. I gave up and watched the captive chimps sulk in a corner for a half hour then drive away too depressed to communicate my dismay.
The pursuit of knowledge just for the sake of pursuit of knowledge. Twenty ought years ago I was watching an episode of Jeopardy. It was student night. Alex asks the young guy from the prestigious law university, 'Do you envision yourself one day working for one of the major law firms in the country?' The guy replies, "Nah, I'm going to go into lobbying. That's where all of the money is." God Bless America!
I was born in St Louis (have resided in Australia for the majority of my life) and spent some very happy hours as a wee tacker toddling around these Botanic Gardens. Bloody delighted to see you do an episode from the Herbarium. Love your work ❤
thanks Tony not many people know about herbaria and what they are there for and how valuable they can be for research
1:30 Never forget, that Ayn Rand, who's word is tantamount to God in their circles, professed a unique love for one William Edward Hickman. Who kidnapped and murdered a twelve year old girl, and then propped up her dead body in his car to make appearances.
Describing him she said: "Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should," she wrote, gushing that Hickman had "no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'"
This is their idol. At one point I recall maybe Ted Cruz or someone bragging about how all his interns must read her novels... Non negotiable. And a book report, perhaps?
Can't make this stuff up guys, although I'm not sure it was actually Ted Cruz...
love the anti reagon sentiments
That's the easy part but no Democrat "fixed" it either so they are as much to blame as well.
US citizens mental health SHOULD be more important than funding foreign wars or letting millions of illegal aliens in and renting hotel rooms for them. Just saying.
I hope some more videos are coming from the St. Louis area!!
Goes to herbarium. First plant he looks up ... Peyote. lolol
It was actually like the 7th plant I looked up but due to the low attention span of most people today it was the second clip I put in to serve as lowest common denominator clickbait to keep people watching and not realize that they're being educated
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesntand it worked😔
I love your show, I could watch it all day
I often wonder how many aging punks are plant nerds
Finally justice is served!!! Thank Bernhardt!
Thanks for loving STL!
I may be biased, but The Botanical Garden is tge best.
The quick map pop up was perfect.
Yeah youre my ppl. Glad i came across your channel again. ❤😊
I didn't realize the Missouri Botanical Garden was such a huge deal country-wide! I enjoy it as a lovely spot in St. Louis, but I didn't know most other similar spots nationally didn't have as wide a selection/collection as this location. There's more there than I'd ever even care to search for! 😵💫
I didn't realize either growing up in St Charles County. As an adult I've visited a handful of other botanical gardens. The one in Memphis is nice but not nearly as good as MOBG. The only other one that was comparable was in Amsterdam. It was absolutely amazing but then again just being in Amsterdam was amazing to me.
Wow! I'm pleasantly surprised.
I had thought the herbarium was just a vapid collection of roses and hydrangeae.
I may check it out next time I'm in town.
Omg, you’re in my childhood Disneyworld. The MO Botanical Gardens are one of my fav places on the planet! And to have YOU say “reaganomics” in there with your dog 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
I LOVE the botanical garden, its in Saint louis because Henery Shaw, a wealthy St Louisan donated the property to the institution. We love it as it really is one of the most beautiful attractions in the city. Japanese festivals are every Labor day weekend!
The quest to catalog all life continues I see.
Hey Joey. i met Peter Raven many years ago at Tikal in Guatemala when i was there w/ my folks. 1988 or 89? he was the longtime director of MBG.
In my ace ventura impression: "This is a beautiful display of sanctioned, invasive species"
I have sweated my arse off in a van photographing wildflowers in Western Australia, too, bro. Love ya man.
We always went there as children
Loved it
I clicked because I remember taking trips to the MO Botanical Garden as a kid.
Thank you for the videos
dr berhardt serving justice 🫡
Can't those specimens that are just smushed in there be rehydrated and re-pressed properly? I know that it can be done with insects ( as ive done it ) but not too sure about flora 🤷
bullseye with that particular compilation lp
If you'd ever like to visit the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, hit us up!
I have to laugh because I worked on the Zardini collection at MOBOT about 25 years ago. Yeah, it's a pretty bad collection but my boss (Jim Solomon) thought someone should tackle it. I've heard from friends who still work there that a couple other people have tried to finish the project but, like me, gave up as well.
I seriously thought i shit myself at 1:15
same.
It must be all the fabaceae 😂
You did.
20:55 that raises questions on what type of agency were the herbariums - private or public, an extension of an university or standalone nonprofit that solely rely on a cycle of grants, volunteer staff and large donors to operate? Were there lobbyists involved for an institution to cut their program to allocate funds to something else? If we can dig into that data on detailed reasons for failure of other herbariums it can help with solutions to keep the surviving programs healthy and running for a long time.
"Banned from the Herbarium" will be the name of my band's next album!
You are a master of clickbait :P I appreciate it. Watched and enjoyed every second, thank you! Now go love yourself bye.