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Campbelltown horticulturalist Tim Pickles embraces guerrilla gardening, plants unauthorised trees in south-western Sydney

Horticulturalist Tim Pickles loves native and imported trees, and says it's important to choose the right tree for the site. (Supplied: Tim Pickles)

Evidence of Tim Pickles' crimes is everywhere in Campbelltown — red autumn leaves outside the hospital, shade for cars and pedestrians, a forest at his sons' school.

He has planted more than 100 trees on nature strips, in car parks and schools in south-western Sydney — almost all without permission and often without anyone noticing.

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