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

A bit of my childrens book I'm writing one day.

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 The world is dying, the trees are being cut down, mother nature is suffocating and this is having an effect on the Tuatha De danann, the half god half human race of people who some may know them as the Fairy people. This race of supernatural beings live in a place called Arbutai deep beneath the earth. Sometimes they come out to play and other times they come out to haunt people. Only people who are bad to nature do they haunt. They are among us all the time. Tormenting the bad and helping the good. As the earth suffocates up here, so too is Arbutai. They know they must reach out and wake people up here on earth to plant trees and create more forests. Forests are the lifeline for the people of Arbutai and for us here on Earth. King Oakomo, the ruler of Abutai sends to earth his most beautiful Goddesses. They're soul purpose is to select cunning wheeler dealer sales type people who they can infiltrate and convert them into loving nature. These are people who can sell sand to the Ar...
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Be the light!

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 The phantom planters movement does not and will never sell out to advertising companies or apply for grants or sponsorships. Some people think this is crazy as I could do so much more with loads of extra money they say. I'm not so sure this would be true as I would probably loose track of my own inner journey having to conform with so much constipated BS. Then I wouldn't have time to write my posts the way I do most mornings or have the headspace to look after and help the people, dogs and trees that surround me daily. The problem I think with the world is so many want to change the world but they cant even help make changes in themselves or their own little bubbles. Like what our senses see, touch and smell every day is where our effort should be going to make changes. Like so many environmental activists that I see and talk too, when you ask them have they planted a tree before many haven't! I can actually see and feel from many of them that they have no interest at all ...
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Jimmy the apple tree!

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 This is Jimmy the apple tree. My first ever phantom planted apple tree right outside my family home where I was born and raised.  I can't believe how well Jimmy is doing. I never thought he was going to make it.  Around 10/11 years ago I planted Jimmy in waterlogged ground. I had never planted a tree before in my life. I just dug a hole and made sure it was the right way up.  We planted 2 that day. My dads mate planted the other.  I remember when we planted them and I named mine, I said to my dads mate are you naming yours?  He looked at me like I had 2 heads.  His didn't make it sadly and Jimmy struggled on for years.  After my dad passed away and I moved out of the estate I never went back down to see Jimmy much. Difficult seeing another family in your family home. Went down once a few years ago and couldn't believe Jimmy was growing away. 6 years I'm gone from the street now and have only been down on 2 other occasions since then.  Yested...
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Same tree 4 years on!

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Here is the same phantom planted plum tree 4 years apart growing away like a champion right by a picnic bench at a layby in Seaforde Northern Ireland. This year it is loaded with plums, I phantom planted 2 of them at the same time and there are literally thousands of plums on them this year! You know everywhere I go these days are littered with trees that I've phantom planted. For years now I've been phantom planting mainly fruit trees on the routes that I normally move around daily. Thousands I have! I see a bee on a plum tree flower one day, a jay getting stuck into an apple another day and families standing there with tubs filling them with raspberries on other days. Sometimes its hard to put into words what I see daily with my phantom planting antics. But its enriching.  Enriching for the soul, enriching for life and enriching for the creation. The majority of society are stuck right in the middle of the Bhavachakra. The Bhavachakra is a painting in Buddhism that represents...
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Love my Irish yews

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 Got my Irish yew trees potted up last night. 14 in total I have, 7 Irish Yew and 7 Golden Irish yew. I also have 2 Junipers and some Arbutus Unedo that I was going to surround my cabin with then I just remembered the Arbutus Unedo aka the Killarney strawberry tree likes to be in full sun, so I'm going to plant these in friends gardens as gifts. I did a mattress delivery yesterday and planted one in the old ladies garden for her. Mattress delivered and tree planted in the garden at the same time. Thats the type of service you get from Buddha Beds. Ironically the ladies house I planted it in, it was her husband who just passed away recently that told me of the strawberry tree many years ago when I just first started phantom planting. Not many know that the Emerald Isle has a strawberry tree and all them years ago when he told me this I thought he was joking. But no he wasn't! The strawberry tree produces edible fruit that looks like strawberries. I read before that the strawberr...
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Preparing my burial site!

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 Was in the garden centre yesterday buying Irish Yew trees and the guy asked me what am I going to do with all these? I'm preparing my burial site I said. He didnt know where to look! This is exactly what I'm doing with these though. My plan is to create The Phantom Planters Oak Grove and Arboretum one day and then I'm getting phantom planted in the middle of it! Carrying on the phantom planters message long after I'm gone. When we go to arboretums these days and admire all the big old trees, remember, someone planted them for us to see today. I challenge you all to phantom plant a tree today!  These Irish yews I bought were very expensive. But it was nowhere near the price of a night on the drink and drugs. These trees live for thousands of years and they won't just be a passing pleasure that brings suffering in its wake. Watching these trees grow will bring continuous joy to my life.  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter
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What one man can do!

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 Cant believe the work that one man has done at our new Lisnabreeny community orchard.  About a month or so ago I did a post to raise money to buy mulch to add  around the nearly 300 apple trees we have at the orchard.  Since then one man has single handaly been working away most days weeding, tidying, watering and mulching the trees.  I would say he's done over 200 so far.  Cant thank you enough big mate. This orchard has got off to the best start because of you.  About 10% out of the 300 or so apple trees we planted died but the remaining 90%, most of them are looking amazing considering how exposed this orchard is.  All apple trees at this orchard are native Irish varieties.  Have a great day guys Peace and love  The Phantom Planter
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