MOST OF US have something to hide—in our gardens, that is, some view of something we’d like to erase. It could be the telephone pole across the street that we can see from certain spots, or the neighbor’s driveway, or even something within our own property—the trash bins or who knows what. Today’s guest, Basil Camu, has a suggestion: an inexpensive, quick-to-develop privacy screen started from a diverse mix of native saplings, sort of a hack of the concept of planting a pocket forest (above), which he’ll explain, too. Basil is co-founder of Leaf & Limb tree-care company in Raleigh, N.C., and author of the book “From Wasteland to Wonder: Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape.” Leaf & Limb is a very different kind of tree service that doesn’t do tree takedowns and instead focuses on tree care through all phases of a tree’s life, and on innovative ways to use them in our landscapes to enhance biodiversity. Basil is also founder of a non-profit, Project Pando, which propagates and distributes some 10,000 native tree saplings annually from wild-collected seed, most going to nonprofits and ecological restoration efforts. Read along as you listen to the […]

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