Andy is my father's cousin. The nursery is located at what was my great-grandparents house. My great-grandmother founded Flowers By Adelaide and our family love of plants originated with her. Andy always had the best orchid stories even when he was a teenager and I was just a little rugrat.
I was wondering who the plant lover he didn't mention was. "I got my first orchid at four" screams to me that his parents loved em too to me. I've know orchids and I know four year olds and no four year old is keeping one alive.
I'm studying environmental policy in college. My semester paper and final policy presentation this year was about the phenomenon of plant blindness in international conservation policy like CITES! My sincere appreciation to you and Dr. Jared Margulies for providing the inspiration over the years for this research.
Hey there I also study (metropolitan studies) and just did a presentation on plant blindness somewhat inspired by the south africa content on here and the ongoing lithops poaching crisis. Do you mind sharing your paper?
Andy's Orchids is an amazing nursery. Not only does Andy avoid the trashy hybrids that plague orchid horticulture, but his operation makes meaningful contributions to the conservation of orchids in the wild. Plus, the sales are really awesome. It takes a lot of self-control to avoid spending all my money on those sometimes.
I think CITES is a good law for plants and animals. I don't see a downside, really. Andy seems to be a very kind person, and the orchids are amazing! Does he have North American terrestrial orchids in his collection? Paphiopedilums? What a fantastic collection.
@@mikeoxsbigg1 nice! Unfortunately because of my care and conditions the couple of standard and mini phalanopsis I get last a couple of years...but there’s hope! I’m trying to be a better caretaker and one now has a new flower stalk. I’m fascinated by the astounding amount of shapes, colors, etc shown in Andy’s amazing orchids...and I loved Joey’s reaction and appreciation of them ! 🌱
Andy’s Orchids is great! His open houses are amazing and he’s always really generous with his time. It was awesome to see two of my favorite botany nerds talk orchids. Thanks for the video Joey!
I love this video. Just so you know this Joey. Orchid people have more patience and we don't mind long videos about them. You will never bore an orchid enthusiast with orchid content. I am now waiting for the rest of the video like a crackhead in the morning waiting for the plug to wake up. Also... stop the hate on walgreens or big box orchids. If you know what species goes into them they can be nice plants to collect to. I have seen many clones with awarded names all the time and some without. If you find the name of the cross and get it awarded you can have a cultivar/clonal name. I wish they came with named tags but they dont. Which is one of the reasons they don't get the respect they should and are often killed.
I'm with you, so happy there will be another episode to come! I had a little collection of orchids in Seattle back in the eighties. Used to find really interesting specimens at Baker & Chantry in Woodinville, which is probably long gone now. It was really nice to see one of my little favorites, Masdevallia veitchiana. We had to find homes for them when we retired in France in '92. I still miss their beauty and weirdness, but here we have a number of wild terrestrial beauties, some of which come up on their own in our yard. Much easier than keeping plants alive in the house.
I looked up that Woodinville orchid place and in 2002 it was bulldozed and turned into what Joey would call a growth of the human tumor (more suburban housing sprawl). How sad to have lost so much back then. I got excited about the place since I live in the area but alas, I am stuck with grocery store options still.
I work in a very large orchid greenhouse that only commercially grows phalaenopsis turds. It's incredible to see a real glimpse at the orchid family. Andy is obviously very passionate about what he does. Thank you for the video.
I'm sure you love the 'water with ice cubes" insanity like I do! Tropical plants love freezing water 😂 My daughter works at Home Depot, they were tossing double bloom stalk Phals, she brought 2 home. Fully fine just loosing blooms & dry. Can't stand to watch plants die, even mass produced stuff. I grow them in coated wire baskets & hang them. We have some nice terrestrial orchids here in N. Georgia, Lady Slipper's, Gooderya & Spiranthes.
The diversity of orchids is absolutely, mind blowingly, amazing! I’m fascinated. Would love to spend hours there wandering through. Thank you for the tour with Andy!
Banger episode. Orchids are so fascinating. I read a really interesting article several years ago from the perspective along the lines that they get animals to adapt rather than the other way around. After spending time among them, it makes a fella wonder. From that line of thinking, I sort of extrapolated that maybe their ease of hybridization is adaptive: they’ve coaxed humans into multiplying genetic diversity and taking them far & wide. I realize this is likely not the case, but it’s a fun idea to ponder, and maybe serves to remind humans that we’re not entirely separate from the natural word. Nature - human nature, even - will eventually find balance.
The Aboriginal tribes of Australia too shaped some of their rituals and dietary patterns to conform to the botanical landscape of the place. You're right, we're not separate from nature. But then, that's the logic underlying the whole discipline of environmental humanities...
Wow!! Ive seen some great videos on this channel but this one takes the biscuit,such huge diversity and weirdly beautiful flowers, like little alien creatures. I can't thank the both of you enough for introducing me to these fascinating plants. This ones a keeper.
What the shit. Like I kinda knew orchids can be weird, but oh man, like just what the actual fuck. Mind blown yet again! I love seeing stuff in habitat, but these deep dive dungeon/greenhouse episodes with your specialist geek friends are quickly becoming my favourite.
God bless you Joey. You make the best content and continue to grow in it. You make my life better every time you post. Thank you for teaching me botany as I know it.
Awesome you used D. vampira for the orchid flower anatomy description. Last species I bought from Andy's, before I moved away from San Diego. I know this video is 2 years old. But, I'm just now seeing it. I can't believe his hair has turned white! Last time I saw him, it still had color. I miss that place. A lot.🖤
I bought a little orchid from Andy a few years ago at the Westminster mall of all places. I still have it! And it hasn't bloomed yet, but it also hasn't died so we're good! He's awesome, you can ask him anything
as someone who is fascinated by and has a small collection of species orchids, and loves your videos, i have been so excited for this video since you talked about meeting Andy. Please, if you want to, make more videos about species orchids. I'm sure they will be well received.
Been subscribed for a while now, but this is by far your best vid! I've been a customer of Andy's for many years. He is a great resource! Cheers, Chris
Fantastic video! I love your botanic tours, and have been a fan of Andy's for many years. And the explanations are clear and nicely irreverent. Thanks!
On my bucket list: visit Andy's Orchids ... won't happen anytime soon because I am in Spain. Thank you for this epic video 👍🏼 I have a channel all about my orchids. My parkinsoniana is currently in bloom and loved seeing Andy's right off the bat... wonderful 👏
[patreon FIRST!!! just kidding but also true 😂] I'm always amazed by orchids I've found some here in Upstate New York and it surprised me because all the ones you always hear about are in jungles and such like most of the ones in this video
This was so fun to watch, I love your excitement and hearing you get so stoked about each flower, their potential pollinator, and where they're from. I often spend time mindfully meditating with my plants and I'm always asking and patiently waiting to hear their entire genus/species story like if I sit there long enough it might just start telling me it's secrets!
had the opportunity to to meet Andy, he treated me as a guest and kindly walk me & my Dad, over his amazing garden, wen he had a bald problem for spraying some gmo shit, glad to see him with hair now, still triving, sedirea japonica, dendrobium bigibum, m. caesia and d. houtteana i bough that day. one of the best Growers in the world.
Oh WOW!! There's more to see? YES, PLEASE!! I'm sure I'm not the only one who dies a little bit every time I see a phalenopsis at Home Depot that has dyed blue flowers.....why do people need to "improve" perfection? I'm loving this anaming man's life's work. Thank you, Joey for showing us!
im amazed by how beautiful the nursery/house looks. Its so beautiful and calming, like a small paradise. How cool would it be if every house or urban place would look like this. I can only dream of this place :')
I'm a quite a bit proud of the cancerous humanity for producing the genius that is the man behind this channel. Cheers from a botanical garden. What you said about CITES is but the tip of the iceberg. If you know who's behind it and see the money flowing you know there's more to that story.
My work is now introducing Audits where Upper Management has the option to sit in the meetings. Using the Botanical names makes Upper Management look dumb and they have no clue what I'm talking about. They ask if I can use common names which I retort I will not dumb down my speech or how I talk about plants. It's Upper Management's job to be educated or get out the damn meetings if you have no clue what is going on. Thanks to you and your informative vids I can make management look dumb and get them out of my meetings.
Common names are generally terrible. And useless. It still blows my mind that people can't grasp the concept that if you learn one genus you can travel 600 miles away and see a plant that you've never seen before and still know that it's in that same genus based on shared flower traits, and subsequently know that it is in the same family as the genus you already knew. It's like people don't realize there's a methodology to the classifications, all based around evolutionary history
I live in Palm Beach County, but I have a cabin on a piece of property in north FL. All the monsterous live Oaks around the cabin are absolutely covered in wild Epidendrum magnoliae. They're cool little Orchids. In the last 22 years I've located MANY native Orchids species in the wild in FL. I think there's around 100 native Orchid species in FL, but many are so rare, and endangered that they're next to impossible to find without a local plant nerd to guide you. One of my favorite FL Orchid species is Tolumnia bahamensis, and she is super rare/critically endangered. I know the last few spots where she can be found on the border of Martin and Palm Beach counties. It's a shame, and its all because of habitat loss, and poaching. People that poach Orchids from the wild are absolute scumbags. Forgive my rambling. 🤙🖖
@@Wabi-sabi8551 I found a cowshorn orchid down in Big Cypress last year, such an unbelievable ecosystem down in SFL! I could spend days wandering the swamps looking for rare orchids!
The white "droplet"-like things on the flower of Pleutothallis ornata (23:55) remind me of the Stapelia glanduliflora flower. Also pollinated by flies. Very interesting.
Loved this video, thank you very much. If you were thinking of making more of these I would absolutely watch them. I learnt a lot, this collection of orchids is fascinating! Thanks again!
I've got a pretty nice encyclia tampensis, Florida butterfly orchid, that my dad nabbed for me around 10 years ago when working for the city. One of the wells he had to service regularly had a big live oak that had to be cut down and it had little colony of a dozen or so pseudo bulbs on one of the branches.
Very nyce Tony, but a lot of small orchids, with pseudobulbs here in Brazil do not come.from dry habitats. In fact small orchids are almost absent from dry habitats in Brazil. Small orchids here normally occur in very humid regions, but as they are epiphitic, this means that they only receive water during the rain or from the fog, because there is no substrate to absorb the water from. Cloud forests are specially rich in small orchids with or without pseusobulbs.
My second trip to Japan, my host family took me to an international orchid exhibition - was heavy inti plants then, but was not too family with orchids except what is florists and the unimposing wild orchids of puget sound. Was a truly mind blowing experience. Including all the companies exhibiting products and gear from around the world.
I used to apply a temporary (4-6 month) shade paint in spring for a fern greenhouse. It already had a shade net but it was only about a 20. An old method was milk and lime paint. I wouldn't have let my greenhouse cook 😢 throw mud on it if you have to.
Young me thought people grew orchids purely for snobby aesthetics, because they are beautiful, but I love how wrong I was shown when I found that we cherish orchids for far more than their looks, from vanilla to pharmacology!
Andy is my father's cousin. The nursery is located at what was my great-grandparents house. My great-grandmother founded Flowers By Adelaide and our family love of plants originated with her. Andy always had the best orchid stories even when he was a teenager and I was just a little rugrat.
I was wondering who the plant lover he didn't mention was. "I got my first orchid at four" screams to me that his parents loved em too to me. I've know orchids and I know four year olds and no four year old is keeping one alive.
I'm studying environmental policy in college. My semester paper and final policy presentation this year was about the phenomenon of plant blindness in international conservation policy like CITES! My sincere appreciation to you and Dr. Jared Margulies for providing the inspiration over the years for this research.
Hey there I also study (metropolitan studies) and just did a presentation on plant blindness somewhat inspired by the south africa content on here and the ongoing lithops poaching crisis. Do you mind sharing your paper?
I studied environmental policy in college and now work at a nursery. I don't remember ever hearing about plant blindness. Keep up the good work!
Sounds like there's the makings of a new community for positive change here! 😁👍🥳🤩
I heard this phrase just recently and I couldn’t agree more with it especially where I’m from.😅
please god dont make it more difficult to cultivate plants
remember less paperwork, not more! lol
Andy's Orchids is an amazing nursery. Not only does Andy avoid the trashy hybrids that plague orchid horticulture, but his operation makes meaningful contributions to the conservation of orchids in the wild. Plus, the sales are really awesome. It takes a lot of self-control to avoid spending all my money on those sometimes.
I think CITES is a good law for plants and animals. I don't see a downside, really. Andy seems to be a very kind person, and the orchids are amazing! Does he have North American terrestrial orchids in his collection? Paphiopedilums? What a fantastic collection.
I'm glad there are trashy hybrids for the average person. So they don't go after the rare stuff.
@@TheDanEdwards hybrids and tissue culture gives us very poor folk the joy of affording and owning a gorgeous orchid 😊🌱
@@grannyplants1764 I have a couple of random store ones. Nearly a decade old each.. in Canada no less.
@@mikeoxsbigg1 nice! Unfortunately because of my care and conditions the couple of standard and mini phalanopsis I get last a couple of years...but there’s hope! I’m trying to be a better caretaker and one now has a new flower stalk. I’m fascinated by the astounding amount of shapes, colors, etc shown in Andy’s amazing orchids...and I loved Joey’s reaction and appreciation of them ! 🌱
He's gone from breaking into plant dungeons to being invited.
Moving up in the world
Andy’s Orchids is great! His open houses are amazing and he’s always really generous with his time. It was awesome to see two of my favorite botany nerds talk orchids. Thanks for the video Joey!
I love this video. Just so you know this Joey. Orchid people have more patience and we don't mind long videos about them. You will never bore an orchid enthusiast with orchid content.
I am now waiting for the rest of the video like a crackhead in the morning waiting for the plug to wake up.
Also... stop the hate on walgreens or big box orchids. If you know what species goes into them they can be nice plants to collect to. I have seen many clones with awarded names all the time and some without. If you find the name of the cross and get it awarded you can have a cultivar/clonal name. I wish they came with named tags but they dont. Which is one of the reasons they don't get the respect they should and are often killed.
I'm with you, so happy there will be another episode to come! I had a little collection of orchids in Seattle back in the eighties. Used to find really interesting specimens at Baker & Chantry in Woodinville, which is probably long gone now. It was really nice to see one of my little favorites, Masdevallia veitchiana.
We had to find homes for them when we retired in France in '92. I still miss their beauty and weirdness, but here we have a number of wild terrestrial beauties, some of which come up on their own in our yard. Much easier than keeping plants alive in the house.
I looked up that Woodinville orchid place and in 2002 it was bulldozed and turned into what Joey would call a growth of the human tumor (more suburban housing sprawl). How sad to have lost so much back then. I got excited about the place since I live in the area but alas, I am stuck with grocery store options still.
I work in a very large orchid greenhouse that only commercially grows phalaenopsis turds. It's incredible to see a real glimpse at the orchid family. Andy is obviously very passionate about what he does. Thank you for the video.
I'm sure you love the 'water with ice cubes" insanity like I do! Tropical plants love freezing water 😂
My daughter works at Home Depot, they were tossing double bloom stalk Phals, she brought 2 home. Fully fine just loosing blooms & dry. Can't stand to watch plants die, even mass produced stuff. I grow them in coated wire baskets & hang them. We have some nice terrestrial orchids here in N. Georgia, Lady Slipper's, Gooderya & Spiranthes.
The diversity of orchids is absolutely, mind blowingly, amazing! I’m fascinated. Would love to spend hours there wandering through. Thank you for the tour with Andy!
Banger episode. Orchids are so fascinating. I read a really interesting article several years ago from the perspective along the lines that they get animals to adapt rather than the other way around. After spending time among them, it makes a fella wonder. From that line of thinking, I sort of extrapolated that maybe their ease of hybridization is adaptive: they’ve coaxed humans into multiplying genetic diversity and taking them far & wide. I realize this is likely not the case, but it’s a fun idea to ponder, and maybe serves to remind humans that we’re not entirely separate from the natural word. Nature - human nature, even - will eventually find balance.
Kinda the chicken & the egg conundrum. Interesting theory tho
The Aboriginal tribes of Australia too shaped some of their rituals and dietary patterns to conform to the botanical landscape of the place. You're right, we're not separate from nature. But then, that's the logic underlying the whole discipline of environmental humanities...
What a thought provoking comment! I’m thinking pollinators can have a very short life cycle and evolve quickly… Thanks
Orchids are a testament to the power of DNA.
Have to comment again. That was awesome!!!
Cheers,
Chris
Wow!! Ive seen some great videos on this channel but this one takes the biscuit,such huge diversity and weirdly beautiful flowers, like little alien creatures. I can't thank the both of you enough for introducing me to these fascinating plants. This ones a keeper.
Omg, loved this video. It is like a walk around the world on one property. The diversity of flower and form is amazing!
What an amazing collection!!
Thank you for allowing our channel host in to share it with us Andy.
What the shit. Like I kinda knew orchids can be weird, but oh man, like just what the actual fuck. Mind blown yet again! I love seeing stuff in habitat, but these deep dive dungeon/greenhouse episodes with your specialist geek friends are quickly becoming my favourite.
I'm blown away by the beauty and diversity of the orchids, but also by the love that's poured into this collection.
This video is a dream come true. Thanks for doing this collaboration Joey! Keep up the amazing content!
God bless you Joey. You make the best content and continue to grow in it.
You make my life better every time you post.
Thank you for teaching me botany as I know it.
Really fun to watch you geeking out with another botanist. Thanks!
Awesome you used D. vampira for the orchid flower anatomy description. Last species I bought from Andy's, before I moved away from San Diego. I know this video is 2 years old. But, I'm just now seeing it. I can't believe his hair has turned white! Last time I saw him, it still had color. I miss that place. A lot.🖤
I bought a little orchid from Andy a few years ago at the Westminster mall of all places. I still have it! And it hasn't bloomed yet, but it also hasn't died so we're good! He's awesome, you can ask him anything
Man, you have some amazing music organized beautifully in your Playlists on your channel.
as someone who is fascinated by and has a small collection of species orchids, and loves your videos, i have been so excited for this video since you talked about meeting Andy. Please, if you want to, make more videos about species orchids. I'm sure they will be well received.
Been subscribed for a while now, but this is by far your best vid! I've been a customer of Andy's for many years. He is a great resource!
Cheers,
Chris
this is the first cpbbd vid i've watched in a while...
he's developed so much as an educator and im so proud of him
Great tour! Can't wait for part two! Thanks!
Fantastic video! I love your botanic tours, and have been a fan of Andy's for many years. And the explanations are clear and nicely irreverent. Thanks!
The Synapomorphies woke me TF up! LMFAOOOO. Thank you.
Most Excellent video 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽
Could have watched 55 minutes of this + another, love the content always! Thank you!
Hey you were in my neck o’ the woods. What a cool-ass place!
YES! Thank you again!!
On my bucket list: visit Andy's Orchids ... won't happen anytime soon because I am in Spain. Thank you for this epic video 👍🏼 I have a channel all about my orchids. My parkinsoniana is currently in bloom and loved seeing Andy's right off the bat... wonderful 👏
Oh great! Now I have a reason to go to the states. Just simply amazing.
Coelogyne cristata are amazing! I've always wanted to see one up close. Definately going to make a trip down and visit.
Thanks for sharing.
[patreon FIRST!!! just kidding but also true 😂] I'm always amazed by orchids I've found some here in Upstate New York and it surprised me because all the ones you always hear about are in jungles and such like most of the ones in this video
Ahhh, yeah! Love orchids. We lived in Nigeria in the late 1960’s, & Dad would bring home orchids to Mum. Cheers, from Southern Oregon. ❤️🙏
One of your most amazing vids, loved it, nature is amazing. Thank you Andy for cultivating all this beauty.
Watching Joey cuss profusely in front of Andy has me dying. I always wish I had more time when I visit Andy’s nursery (make a reservation 1st)
This was so fun to watch, I love your excitement and hearing you get so stoked about each flower, their potential pollinator, and where they're from. I often spend time mindfully meditating with my plants and I'm always asking and patiently waiting to hear their entire genus/species story like if I sit there long enough it might just start telling me it's secrets!
Thank you brother...I love orchids...this video make my day..
I adore your vids, really hope this channel blows up soon ❤️ you explain this stuff in such an accessible manner
had the opportunity to to meet Andy, he treated me as a guest and kindly walk me & my Dad, over his amazing garden, wen he had a bald problem for spraying some gmo shit, glad to see him with hair now, still triving, sedirea japonica, dendrobium bigibum, m. caesia and d. houtteana i bough that day. one of the best Growers in the world.
Great vid! Went to an orchid show randomly a couple months back! Who’d have know how varied they are! I’m usually into cacti and roses. 🤙🤙🤙
What a great collection! 👍
Wonderful Tour Thanks Gentlemen.
Oh WOW!! There's more to see? YES, PLEASE!! I'm sure I'm not the only one who dies a little bit every time I see a phalenopsis at Home Depot that has dyed blue flowers.....why do people need to "improve" perfection? I'm loving this anaming man's life's work. Thank you, Joey for showing us!
I would gladly sit through hours of this content. Love to hear from conservationists, it's a welcome break from the insanity of the human world.
Fantastic show thankyou. Life is too short, I need multiple lives.
im amazed by how beautiful the nursery/house looks. Its so beautiful and calming, like a small paradise. How cool would it be if every house or urban place would look like this. I can only dream of this place :')
I feel like an kid learning about these orchids.
you talking to me! thank you very cool ALL stay safe
Fascinating. Thanks Joey
phenomenal film!
Andy is a good friend!
I wish this I found this channel when I was in college I might have had some direction.
fascinating video. Andy's life time of work is something of wonder.
That was great, thanks Joey
I'm a quite a bit proud of the cancerous humanity for producing the genius that is the man behind this channel.
Cheers from a botanical garden. What you said about CITES is but the tip of the iceberg. If you know who's behind it and see the money flowing you know there's more to that story.
My work is now introducing Audits where Upper Management has the option to sit in the meetings. Using the Botanical names makes Upper Management look dumb and they have no clue what I'm talking about. They ask if I can use common names which I retort I will not dumb down my speech or how I talk about plants. It's Upper Management's job to be educated or get out the damn meetings if you have no clue what is going on. Thanks to you and your informative vids I can make management look dumb and get them out of my meetings.
Oh to be a fly on the wall! I can see how true plant people would have issues with the money guys. Hats off to you.
Common names are generally terrible. And useless. It still blows my mind that people can't grasp the concept that if you learn one genus you can travel 600 miles away and see a plant that you've never seen before and still know that it's in that same genus based on shared flower traits, and subsequently know that it is in the same family as the genus you already knew. It's like people don't realize there's a methodology to the classifications, all based around evolutionary history
There's probably 36 plants called "Black-eyed Susan". Tell upper management to get their act together or gtfo.
Amazing collection..thanks for sharing this
😍It’s like the United Nations of Orchids🌸🌺 beautiful, thanks for bringing us along 🙏🏼
I wish I could visit here one day and just take my time looking at everything.
I love this channel ❤️
😊🐑
That an orchids cocktail, what a place to visit lol.....
The collab I never knew I needed ❤️… Andy, you need to get some Epidendrum magnoliae back in stock!!!!
I live in Palm Beach County, but I have a cabin on a piece of property in north FL. All the monsterous live Oaks around the cabin are absolutely covered in wild Epidendrum magnoliae. They're cool little Orchids. In the last 22 years I've located MANY native Orchids species in the wild in FL. I think there's around 100 native Orchid species in FL, but many are so rare, and endangered that they're next to impossible to find without a local plant nerd to guide you. One of my favorite FL Orchid species is Tolumnia bahamensis, and she is super rare/critically endangered. I know the last few spots where she can be found on the border of Martin and Palm Beach counties. It's a shame, and its all because of habitat loss, and poaching. People that poach Orchids from the wild are absolute scumbags. Forgive my rambling. 🤙🖖
@@Wabi-sabi8551 I found a cowshorn orchid down in Big Cypress last year, such an unbelievable ecosystem down in SFL! I could spend days wandering the swamps looking for rare orchids!
The white "droplet"-like things on the flower of Pleutothallis ornata (23:55) remind me of the Stapelia glanduliflora flower. Also pollinated by flies. Very interesting.
What a beautiful nursery. Way to represent San Diego!
well done tony. thanks
Awesome as always, appreciate the work you do to help bridge the gap for beginners!! This ish is bizarre!
You definitely continue to bring a fantasy world into perspective, One that is right here in front of us.
What a wonderful video.
Outstanding work sir.
Loved this video, thank you very much. If you were thinking of making more of these I would absolutely watch them. I learnt a lot, this collection of orchids is fascinating! Thanks again!
I've got a pretty nice encyclia tampensis, Florida butterfly orchid, that my dad nabbed for me around 10 years ago when working for the city. One of the wells he had to service regularly had a big live oak that had to be cut down and it had little colony of a dozen or so pseudo bulbs on one of the branches.
This is the best video that you have produced.
Amazing video! I love it! Love orchids!
Nice editing Tony. Love it.
Also Orchid seeds are dust like! now that makes sense how the are epiphytic. (or how they get up on those tree tops).
Love that the "upside down" orchids are common in Australia! Ha!
I learned so much! I didn’t even know about epiphytic orchids because none grow anywhere near me! Andy is the coolest.
Amazing stuff. What a cool dude, wish him luck. The mushroom orchid was the banger of the bunch.
Wow, I NEED those Dracula orchids for my garden!
Love the little lessons you splice into the video, hope to see more of that in the future. Really helps teach this stuff
Absolutely amazing
wow at 26:25 you got me thinking "holy shit this orchid looks like a cactus" for just a second, lmao
Very nyce Tony, but a lot of small orchids, with pseudobulbs here in Brazil do not come.from dry habitats. In fact small orchids are almost absent from dry habitats in Brazil. Small orchids here normally occur in very humid regions, but as they are epiphitic, this means that they only receive water during the rain or from the fog, because there is no substrate to absorb the water from.
Cloud forests are specially rich in small orchids with or without pseusobulbs.
I want to go there really bad. Well done!
Love the repetition, the on-screen text. Wish locality info was always in video title, as I often revisit your videos based on where I am.
Maggot Mimic - Thanks, that's my band name now
Haha! You showed great restraint in describing that tillansia seed wad.
My second trip to Japan, my host family took me to an international orchid exhibition - was heavy inti plants then, but was not too family with orchids except what is florists and the unimposing wild orchids of puget sound. Was a truly mind blowing experience. Including all the companies exhibiting products and gear from around the world.
I used to apply a temporary (4-6 month) shade paint in spring for a fern greenhouse. It already had a shade net but it was only about a 20. An old method was milk and lime paint. I wouldn't have let my greenhouse cook 😢 throw mud on it if you have to.
Awesome video. Thank u. :)
Awesome!!!
Joey has really cool friends, I'm jealous
I love your illustrations , when book ?
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Now I want to make a trip out there just to see this place! Florida to California would be a fun road trip
I wonder if he has some shade cloth to put over the top of his greenhouse if it's too hot and dry
Young me thought people grew orchids purely for snobby aesthetics, because they are beautiful, but I love how wrong I was shown when I found that we cherish orchids for far more than their looks, from vanilla to pharmacology!
wow I love this!! the orchid crap is great!!!
Wow! I think Andy's is worth a visit next time I head south. Thanks for the show, guys! Always amazing, always high class Chicagoin' (crazy)?