This day 5 years ago!

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 That was 5 years ago today the BBC came out and did a documentary on my phantom planting. I had only just started a few months and they had got in touch. 

This was Vinnie Hurrell from the Stephen Nolan show and my good mate Billy Boy!

Vinnie had said after the filming that me and my mate Billy were like something from a James Bond film!


Back then I never asked for any money to make this film, I never had intentions back then to make money from what I'm doing. 

Then as time went by and more trees went in the ground with more publicity generated, The Phantom Planter soon became my life. This all had a great effect on me financially.


I remember when I first started asking for money on here I got messages from people saying that they've been totally put off my page now that I've brought money into it. Or when I started to advertise my Buddha Beds mattresses to try and generate income I got the same sort of messages, that they would prefer my page to be about trees and not mattresses. How dare I try and make a living they were trying to say in other words.


I like to keep this page as real, raw and down to earth as possible, every post is written by me, never will I let anyone post on my page, Its all my own work, thoughts and views I'm sharing on here.

What I'm doing now is all I want to carry on doing. I'm not looking to make a fortune and get out of here. 

I'm not looking to build things up and get others to do it.

I want to just keep doing what I've been doing for the past 5 years as The Phantom Plnater. ( I have been phantom planting for 10 years but only coined The Phantom Planter name just over 5 years ago) 


I do need your support guys for this, I have a patreon account where you can subscribe £3.50 a month and you'll get to ask me anything you want on there for a guaranteed answer. 

By supporting with just this small amount which you can stop at anytime this lets me know where I stand each month. You can also do the same monthly subscription with my paypal.

here are both links.


https://www.patreon.com/ThePhantomPlanter?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator


https://paypal.me/thephantomplanter?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB


Really do depend on you guys, I Will never sell out to advertising and marketing companies. 

This is a community grassroots movement and always will be. 


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter 


I challenge you to phantom plant a tree!


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