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Back from my tree tour

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 Thats me back to business after a couple of days away touring aorund some phantom planted trees.  Ballyronan Marina apple trees was my first stop and they are looking amazing after some TLC. These trees were phantom planted back in 2020. 2 of them thriving right in the main carpark.  Then I went to Cabin hill in Cookstown were around 30 heritage Irish apple trees were phantom planted back in 2019 and I counted around 20 or so thriving. What I love about these is they were just wild phantom planted and forgot about and today we have 20 strong apple trees. Its a numbers game this phantom planting. Dont get too caught up with losses. Just keep planting and chanting.  Jampa Ling Buddhist monastery in County Cavan was the next stop were back in winter past I planted 7 apple varieties that are native to County Cavan. Cavan Sugarcane, Cavan Rose and Cavan Newington were the varieties. Thought it would be very fitting to plant Cavan apple trees in County Cavan. Planted thes...
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Some of yesterday's work

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 Was up giving some apple trees a bit of much needed TLC yesterday. These 2 at Ballyronan Marina were phantom planted back in 2020. They were a bit wobbley on the rootstock and not that firmly rooted in. So I brought some top soil and mounded them up to the line of the rootstock. Hopefully this will force more roots out and strengthen the trees over time. I've a couple of experiments going on with this method. Only time will tell.  Love how these trees have survived here in the most beautiful part of the world. They even have loads of apples on them this year.  I gave them a good tidy up also cutting off all the low down growth coming out at the base. Both trees are looking amazing now!!!  Also went to visit about 30 wild phantom planted heritage apple trees that were planted at Cabin Wood Cookstown back in 2019. I have not went near these trees in years. They have just been wild phantom planted and forgot about.  Yesterday I counted about 20 strong healthy appl...
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From timy acorns.

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 Every Sunday I go and cut the grass of The Phantom Planters Oak Spiral. This is a real labour of love for me. Love watching all the iconic baby oaks that line the spiral pop their heads up. This spiral is coming to life and the portal to the Tuatha De Danann is opening. All a bit quantum entangled really considering the area where the spiral has been created is called Lisnabreeny which means "Fort of the Fairy dwelling" in Irish.  You know when you plant an oak tree your not just planting a tree, your planting a growing palace for nature. Oaks are a massive biodiversity hub thats said to support more than 2300 different species of wildlife, including birds, mammals, fungi, and invertebrates. Because they support such a high volume of life, this is why oaks are known as the King Tree! I challenge you to phantom plant something mighty. From tiny acorns grow massive oaks.  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty
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My prototype project!

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 A drone pic of our latest phantom planted orchard. This orchard was planted up just a few months ago. As you can see I regularly go back to keep it looking good cutting out a border around the apple trees so when the council grass cutters come out they have no reason to come anywhere near my trees.  There are 88 heritage Irish apple trees here that I have specially selected from old heritage orchards around the country. I took cuttings to graft them onto MM106 rootstocks and propagated for over a year in our polytunnel. They have all now been phantom planted here in the estate for nature and community to enjoy.  Please do support this movement guys. I've another 200 heritage Irish apple trees propagating right now to create another couple of orchards just like this in the pic next year.  Feel free to drop me a tip  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and...
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Some sad news to report

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 Some sad news!!! A memorial tree I phantom planted a few years ago has been chopped down. Strange this has been done as there are so many other memorial trees next to it.  Help support our mission guys. Any trees damaged will be replaced.  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL I challenge you all to phantom plant a tree to make up for this.
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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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