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Lets get making our streets and estates into urban orchard for everyone to have free fresh food!

5am mission!

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 Me and wee betty were out from 5am this morning doing a bit of Phantom Planters marketing around Belfast City Centre.  We put 200 of these QR code stickers out on mainly bus stops and other places where I think people would be hanging around. These QR codes are an amazing way to show you exactly where your traffic is coming from.  As most of you know I've been exploring new avenues to get my message out there and help generate some funding. Its easy to get so locked into social media thinking its the only way of promoting stuff, but you forget that businesses have been promoting and marketing in so many other ways long before social media was around.  It will be very interesting to see how many scans I'll get from 200 stickers put out.  Really enjoyed being out also at that time of morning around the City Centre. Was chatting to so many decent friendly homeless people too. Sad the suffering thats going on around us. We are all stuck in this prison of life toget...
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The ogham ring is locked!

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 5 years ago I went around the coast of The Emerald Isle planting the letters of the Ogham tree alphabet to spell the name "The Phantom Planters". The start and end tree, Holly - ogham ketter T and willow - ogham letter S is in our phantom planters HQ in South Belfast. I phantom planted the Holly first then went all around the island to come back and plant the willow right next to the holly. It took me over 2 weeks completing this mission.  Back then I said that one day the holly and willow will interlock together sealing my ogham ring and completing an ancient ogham ritual. It is believed if you spell your name in a ring of trees using the ogham tree alphabet inside this ring of trees will become your magical place.  Well I had big ambitions to make the whole of the Emerald Isle the magical place for "The Phantom Planters"! I went down to have a look at the holly and willow the other day and couldn't believe my eyes. Talk about them being interlocked! Literally...
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Things are looking good!

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 Every week I cut the grass around this phantom planted orchard. Also gave them a good mulch the other day too.  The trees are all looking amazing BTW after that much needed rainfall we got. They seem to really perk up after rain.  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty  Feel free to buy me a drink today👇👇👇 https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL
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Positive Rascality!

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 Me and wee Betty was out and about most of the day yesterday tending to phantom planted trees all around the estate. Newly planted fruit trees should always be checked over and watered in dry weather for the first year to get them established. We mulched and checked well over 100 first year fruit trees yesterday.  This is how I always visualised the future for me many years ago when I just started out phantom planting. That one day I would be spending my time going around tending to all the thousands of phantom planted trees.  Thoughts and visualisations are powerful. They are a major part of Tibetan Buddhist practice. Choose them wisely if you can.  Although in this crazy world force fed with fear everywhere we go its hard to choose what we think or visualise. Our minds are pretty warped with BS most of the time. And we all like to stick our noses into other peoples karma thinking we know best.  For me this world is all karma manifesting. Best we all try and k...
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Nature always amazes!

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 Love this apple tree at The Phantom Planters HQ still surviving after a massive oak branch fell on it in the last storm we got. Nature never ceases to amaze me.  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty  Please support The Phantom Planters movement.  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL
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A gamble thats paid off!

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 88 apple trees phantom planted in a field.  This is something I have always wanted to do is phantom plant an island orchard of trees. One thing always put me off over the years was its a gamble if they will survive like this.  88 bare root apple trees would also cost a minimum of a thousand pounds plus all the extras in planting them. This is not something I could have afforded to take a gamble with over the years. So I grew my own heritage Irish apple trees and took the risk to phantom plant them in an island orchard just like I've always wanted and so far the council grass cutters and locals have been respecting this mini orchard that has been phantom planted for nature and community.  I could have sold these trees and did something nice for myself but what would be nicer than watching a phantom planted orchard thrive in the hood.  In society fixated on greed and passing pleasures at the expense of nature and our souls. Phantom planting trees is life! It elev...
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The centre of the Spiral

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 This is the Irish yew tree at the centre of The Phantom Planters Oak spiral.  I was out the other day giving it a good water and a mulch and its looking amazing! I'm in the process of gathering loads of Mourne granite rock which I'm going to built a circled wall around the Irish yew. Going to make this a real feature that will last for many lifetimes. Yew trees live for thousands of years with some saying they are immortal.  I also have some amazing news to report on the iconic oak collection that line the spiral. All 34 ancestors of the most famous oak trees in the UK and Ireland are all coming to life. I have had a 100% success rate. This place really is history in the making.  This is probably the only collection of its type in the world preserving the linage and genetics of the oldest of most iconic oak trees on these islands.  Here is the list of all the oaks we have. I've got 3 more to gather in the coming years to bring it up to the magic number of 37....
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