The Phantom Planter

 Just finished phantom planting 21 heritage Irish apple trees to celebrate the birth of Christ   If we all tried living like JC the world would be a much better place.  Had a young helper with me. This young lad was out on his new bike for Christmas and I asked if he wanted to plant an apple tree. He was well up for it! And lucky we had a spur set of welly boots and gloves.  He now has his own phantom planted apple tree to visit for the rest of his life!  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter

 Merry Christmas everyone from The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty! We are heading out here today to phantom plant 21 heritage Irish apple trees. Every Christmas for the past many years now me and my right hand man have met up to plant trees on Christmas day. Yesterday I planted 13 apple trees as Christmas presents. I have sent my friends and family a pic and location of their tree gift so they can go and visit it one day. This is a Christmas gift that will keep on giving for a 100 years to come. Guys if you would like to send me and wee betty and Christmas gift feel free on the link below.  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL The money will come in very handy. For the past many months I have been putting so much more time and effort than normal into my tree phantom planting missions. I have been trying to put trust in things that my wee business will make enough to cover it all. But coming up to Christmas I think buying a mattress is the last thing on peop...

 Got my juniper cuttings yesterday. Junipers are one of the rarest plants/trees in Northern Ireland. This small batch you see is one of a few thats left in this whole mountain range here.  How they have survived is a miracle with all the grazing animals. Apparently the genetics of these junipers are unique to these mountain ranges. For years I looked for these. I have never seen junipers anywhere else in Northern Ireland apart from here and many years ago I was on some mission searching high and low looking everywhere for them. Its great to see this little batch doing so well and its nice to know that if anything happens to these that I've got the genetics and linage going here, ready to be replanted anytime! Many years ago I took cuttings from this same batch, grew them up and replanted in another part of the mountain. They were growing so well for a year or so then they put cattle on the mountain and they were destroyed. It baffled me a bit at the time as when they put the c...

 Heading off on a special mission today to get some very rare Juniper cuttings up in the mountains. Bought myself a state of the art propagator with built in LED lighting that mimics the sunrise and sunset when coming on and off. It has 10 different brightness settings. Its a really cool all in one bit of kit. They say if you provide the right climate for juniper cuttings you can get them to root in 6 weeks. Where as the cuttings I took before it took them about a year to root outside. I'm growing these cuttings to be planted up in a ring around the Irish yew tree we planted in the centre of our spiral on the winter solstice just passed.  Junipers are often referred too as the mountain yew. Both these trees live for thousands of years. One kills and one heals. The yin and yang of the tree world. Its important for me that I know the genetics of all thats getting planted up in the spiral. I want to know for certain that it will live on for a thousand years.  So much tree pr...

 Hey guys, just an update on how I'm moving forward with this.  I won't be planting anymore memorial trees for people. I do recommend you plant the trees yourself though.  You gotta try these things and learn as you go. Planting memorial trees has been something thats carried a bit of a stress and burden on me. Sad as death is a part of life but its been having a bit of a negative impact on me dealing with so much death.  The trees I have been running around planting now I have been loving it, just giving them away to nature and community I've been getting such an elevated buzz from it.  Dealing with grieving families and destressing messages all the time has been hard for me. Its too much. I'm not trained for this guy's.  So from now on I won't be planting anymore memorial trees. Hope you plant them yourself though.  Hope you all understand. Phantom planting is sport and hobby for me. I took a wrong road and learned.  I challenge you to phantom p...

 Got the Irish yew tree planted yesterday on the winter solstice at the centre of the spiral. Also got the first oak tree planted, this oak was grown from an acorn from the Bowthorpe oak Lincolnshire, the largest girthed oak in the UK at 13 metres in circumference. I collected this oak tree personally many years ago when over visiting the tree. Next tree to get planted is from an acorn that me and wee betty collected of the Major oak aka Robin Hood oak in Sherwood forest. I never forget the visions I had that morning at 5am with a torch as me and wee betty jumped the fence to get the acorns. I could see the acorns that I was collecting grow hundreds of years into the future providing life for all sorts creatures and beings. In Buddhism they say practicing generosity is the most virtuous merit making act available to us all right now. I seen that morning collecting acorns that these trees will be practising generosity for hundreds of years after I'm gone. I definitely felt some asce...