The oaks still stand!

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 Sad day for this big oak tree which was one of my favorites, you can see from one of the pics where I used to climb up and sit in the middle of it.

Now the old oak tree has been shattered from a massive fallen beech tree after the storm we had.

It looks like the oak tried to catch the beech tree and is still holding onto it. Cant believe though that the oak is still standing and the base of the oak is still looking strongly rooted into the ground, it hasn't budged one bit!


As I've been out and about observing the forests after the storm I can see why the Druids called the oak the king tree.

Not one veteran or ancient oak tree have I seen fall, not even slightly moved at all. 

All of them are firmly into the ground.


Druid is also supposed to mean oak. The oak was a very sacred tree to the Druids and was a place of worship for them, I can see why. 


Most of you probably know that I have a selection of oak trees growing from acorns collected from many of the oldest oak trees in the UK and Ireland. My plan is to plant them in a ring one day making it an oak grove museum. After seeing all these old oak trees still standing after one of the worst storms we've ever had, it gives me great confidence that my oak grove museum will live long and strong still carrying The Phantom Planters message for a thousand years after I'm gone.


If you want to do something to really help nature for future generations get out this coming autumn and collect acorns from all the old oaks close by and start to grow them for phantom planting.

Oaks are the trees we need to be planting to safeguard the future of our old trees. We need to be collecting the acorns from old oaks like in my pics. These have the genetics that best suit the ecology of our land.

Some of our old oaks around have been here long before weather records have begun.


I keep noticing when out and that most of the trees fallen are none native species, even this beech tree that fell into the oak, they only came to Ireland around the 16th century.

Same as the sycamore tree, it arrived on these islands around the same time as the beech and I've seen some huge ones of these fall too.

Seen a massive sweet chestnut aka Spanish chestnut fall and lots of cedars, cypress and spruce trees., all none native trees. And still not one oak has fallen!!


This oak in the pics is situated near Shaws Bridge in Belfast.

I do hope Belfast city council keeps whats left of this oak and let it set an example for the future of how strong oak trees are.

It could be named the storm tree. It will survive perfectly if the beech tree is cut well enough out of it.

Please if this message finds who is in charge of maintaining this area, keep this oak tree going. I'm keen to watch how this tree grows and gets on after loosing so many limbs like this.









#belfastcitycouncil #Phantomplanter 


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter

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