The Phantom Planter

So here are all the acorns I have so far that have been collected and sent to me by the Paramili-Trees SAS branch (Special Acorn Service)  From the The Phantom Planter - I salute you!  Allerton Oak  Magog Oak  Queen Elizabeth I Oak Marton Oak Old Man Calke Oak  Panshanger Great Oak  Crouch Oak Druid Oak Majesty Oak  Old Knobbley Oak  Brian Boru Oak Still plenty more to come also, but this is what I've got potted up so far this year.  Below is my collection of oak trees that I've been growing for several years now. I'm not far off getting all the oaks that are listed in the 50 Great British Trees  .  Bowthorpe Oak Brian Boru Oak Blenheim Oak numbered 4012 C.1090 Knighthood Oak Major Oak aka Robin Hood Oak Remedy Oak Old Knobbly Oak Parliament Oak Big Belly Oak Clachan Oak Brimmon Oak Capon Oak Ketts Oak King Oak Blenheim Belvoir Oak I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter

 So today we go and make a start at marking out the land for the Oak Grove Museum thats going to planted up with saplings grown with acorns from the most famous and iconic oak trees in the UK and Ireland that I've been collecting for many years now and still have much more collecting to do. The idea we are going for is to mark out in the field a single spiral as you would see on the megalithic tomb Newgrange in Ireland, said to be one of the oldest tombs in the world, dating back 5200 years. Many people call these Celtic spirals but in truth is these spirals where here a few thousand years before the Celts even arrived in Ireland. We are going to plant the oak trees 12 metres apart, so we will make using pallets a ring in the centre of the field 12m in circumference.  We will then wrap 50m of rope around the pallets and start to walk out into the field marking the grass with paint, then we will cut this out making it a pathway and at every 12m we will be planting one of the oa...

 Walking around the Phantom Planters HQ last night and found it very hard to find myself an apple!  The couple that I did find though was unreal, you cant beat the taste of an apple straight from the tree. Out of the hundreds of phantom planted fruit trees we have here, nearly every piece of fruit is gone! Its so good to see that the local community and beyond has been coming to help themselves.  It makes me think how much of a need and demand there is for urban orchards. Fruit trees should be everywhere all over our streets and estates creating good natural organic food for the people. Time for us all to get phantom planting! I remember reading in a book that for something like 300.000 years our species have been foragers, and it's only in the past 10,000 years we have farmed. Its in our DNA to be out foraging in nature, Its who and what we are. What we are now is not evolution, its devolution. Devolution of the body, mind and soul. Time we all got out planting and chant...

 Did a post yesterday about the tree we phantom planted 3 years ago in memory of Queen Elizabeth II. I remember 3 years ago when I posted it some of the negative comments coming through were unreal. It can upset you a bit when you get so many toxic comments on your posts. Or more so its just upsetting the ego. The past few weeks I haven't been scrolling on social media sites or checking comments and after putting up yesterdays post I have no idea what has been said or what is going on and I'm just feeling the same. I haven't let anyone else's BS come into my mind. Instead of scrolling on here and interacting with everyone I have been using my time listening to Carl Jung, Napoleon Hill and my usual Buddhist monks. Napoleon Hill who wrote the book think and grow rich says its so important what we let or eyes see and our ears here. Social media sites have magnified all the wrong things we are taking in one thousand fold! Another thing that I keep hearing more and more of f...

 I'm very grateful for all the people in my life thats making The Phantom Planter movement work. There are so many jobs that people do behind the scenes to keep everything going that I could never do myself. People volunteer their own time to keep all this going. Some land we have just claimed for the greater good and other land has been donated for all our community fruit trees and orchards. What I have also loved to see this year is nearly every fruit tree we've planted has had all their fruit picked. I was round checking on some apple trees last night in a part of the estate and one of the old neighbours came out saying that a few different groups of people have been round picking from them trees. Its all working the way I've dreamt off and more! People have also been saying to me that they have been using the phantom planters tree map that I've shared on here to go and find the trees.  Cant thank my beautiful girlfriend enough for making this map of trees happen. It...

 Check out these kids going on a special mission to get me some acorns from the Brian Boru Oak in County Clare Ireland. They really did need the mask for this one as I hear the Brian Boru oak is on private land and its not that easy to get permission to visit it. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission anyway is how The Phantom Planters roll. Brian Boru who was the last king of Ireland was said to have planted this oak tree himself. Sad that here on the Emerald Isle we have so few ancient oaks compared to Britain. We are known as The Emerald Isle not for grass, but for trees. At one time this whole island was lush green Atlantic Rainforest. Now we are one big field with sheep and cattle. I got some good famous acorns in the post yesterday, Old Man Calke Oak Queen Elizabeth 1 Oak Magog oak Allerton Oak All these trees are in and around 1000 years old. Still plenty more acorns to come in the post here this week from other famous oak trees. Really can't believe the interest and ...