403-Winter Tree Care, with Basil Camu
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Joe Lamp'l
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Winter tree care isn’t just about aesthetics — it reduces the risk that a tree drops a limb or topples, which can both doom the tree and cause property damage and injury. To share important winter tree care tips and warnings, arborist and tree preservationist Basil Camu returns to the podcast this week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner show. |
| 0:04.9 | Today, I am talking with one of my newer guest who we've had on the podcast in the past, Basil Camus. |
| 0:12.5 | He is a co-founder of an incredible tree care company called Leith and Lim, there in the Raleigh area. |
| 0:19.3 | He is a master-certified arborist with a wealth |
| 0:22.6 | of knowledge, an incredible book from Wasteland to Wonder that we'll talk about in this podcast, |
| 0:27.8 | and actually you can get a hard copy of it for free, plus the cost of shipping is it, and I highly |
| 0:33.7 | recommend that. You'll hear more about that later in the podcast. Basil is such a wealth of knowledge and so giving with his information and he's so articulate with how he communicates. |
| 0:44.4 | I wanted to talk to him today with this time of year being winter and snow and ice and the risk of tree damage. |
| 0:51.6 | It's also the best time to maintain a tree for structural pruning or care of the trees. |
| 0:58.5 | So I wanted to go there with Basil on those two topics and see where it goes from there. |
| 1:03.3 | And it did. |
| 1:04.2 | It's a great conversation with lots of information. |
| 1:07.1 | So that's what we have in store for you today. |
| 1:09.4 | A very timely topic. |
| 1:12.9 | And if you love trees or want to care for them or at a minimum, reduce the risk of any damage or danger of a tree on your property. This |
| 1:19.4 | conversation is for you. So let's get into it. And as we do, thanks to our sponsors for today's |
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