The Phantom Planter

 Was out and about yesterday and stopped off at a phantom plantation from about 5 years ago. This one in the pics is a memorial cherry tree. One pic is from 5 years ago and the other is from yesterday, some growth! We have many phantom planted fruit trees in this area that are all thriving. Many people asking me whats the best tree to plant or how do I know it wont get mowed down or destroyed. Its all a gamble guys, you win some and you loose some.  But a good guide line is make sure its 5 metres away from any path or road so fallen fruit can never be a problem for walkers and cars.  Always keep the grass tidy at the base of the tree so council mowers dont have to go near it and dont plant under powerlines or inline with sewers. This is only if your planting on council green spaces. If your planting in wild land thats not maintained in most cases I just plant them bareroot and leave to nature. Remember though if your planting potted trees these will need watered for the f...

 25 more heritage Irish apple trees just dug out and tags ready for planting tomorrow at our Lisnabreeny community orchard.  All these trees we grafted and grew ourselves.  Feel free to support us https://gofund.me/cd32105bb I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love The Phantom Planter

 Its the mind that creates the suffering. For 7 years I lived in this old rotted portacabin. I moved here because I was practically homeless after my father passed away. I had very little money and had just been made bankrupt also. When I first moved in I was still an alcoholic and used to wake up on the floor of this cabin riddled with many negative emotions. I didnt even have a shower or curtains, I used some of my mattress stock to cover up the windows. My mind was tormented! There are a few ways I could have went back then, jail, death or get into a bit of planting and chanting and follow the Buddha path with devotion as best as I can. You know when your backed into a corner like this your capable of anything. What was really the icing on the cake back then was my good mate at the time, we were working on this dodgy business deal that was to put me back up high on the monopoly status. 100k I was to get and he robbed me! I never forget it.  Looking back he did me the bigges...

 A bit about me and how I became the phantom planter for all the new followers. I grew up in a Loyalist housing estate in Belfast, my father a Protestant and my mother was a Catholic from Ardyone, that had big complications here in Northern Ireland but I always knew I was a mongrel, a bit different! My dad was a delboy ( a buyer and seller of everything and anything) and from I could walk he had me a mini Delboy. From selling round the doors to off loading container loads cigs and booze straight in from Andorra. I was his runner from ever I can remember. He was one cunning man, anytime the police used to raid the house I was always part of the escape plan with the books and cash. He always said to me if the police ever come they will go to the shed and he will start shouting and wrestle one of the police. All the rest of the police will run to the shed to see whats going on and you lift that bag and run round to his mates house. Several time I had to do this and every time it worke...

 Over 10k new followers in the past few days. Welcome to my page guys. I'm getting a lot more messages than usual due to this rise in support, my apologies for not getting back to you. I dont really get back to many messages to be honest. I dont have the time. This page is more a blog for me were I'm just sharing my authentic thoughts and phantom plantings. I'm not looking to link up with anyone, or here to seek fame or celebrity status. I've did the whole movie making and media stuff years ago when I first setup and it really took me out of my comfort zone. I like my life, I like the people that are in it and I like the things I do. And with all the thousands of fruit trees I've phantom planted over over the years, I really dont have time for much else. 6 years now I have been sharing my phantom plantings on here. Been phantom planting for around 11 years, but only came up with The Phantom Planter just over 6 years ago. My mission is to get you to plant trees. I be...

My main phantom planters facebook page has grown by 8k followers in a few days and by 3k followers from yesterday. Not sure whats going on, my page seemed to have stopped at 120k followers for around a year and now its just went boom! Facebook must have taken a liken to me again. Its so good to see as the more of us out phantom planting trees the better our world will be and the better we will be too. For me I think its so important we all plant trees and connect to nature as individuals. It was phantom planting an apple tree around 11 years ago by the side of the road in Belfast that changed the way I think about life. When I planted this tree I was in the depths of darkness. Things couldn't have been any worse for me back then. But me and a mate thought we would plant some apple trees in our local areas just for a bit of fun. We had no idea what we were doing, never planted a tree in our lives before. All we knew was to plant it the right way up and water it.  This one tree reall...