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Great weather for some orchard maintenance

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 What a day yesterday for working away at the Lisnabreeny orchard, the sun shined all day! Last year we put chicken wire around all the trees to protect from rabbits, but it turns out there are no rabbits in the area and now the cages we made are becoming a bit of a hindrance with weeds growing up all inside them making it harder for us to keep the bases of the trees clear off weeds and cutting around them too.  So yesterday we made at start removing this wire and giving the trees a check over, making sure any memorial tags are not too tight and cutting off any dead wood. Just basically showing the trees some love and attention. They do feel it. Conscious care grows conscious trees.  We have a few hundred of these to do and the weather is looking great for the next while so perfect time to get out and work with the trees.  My Big Glagwegian pal is over staying with me for a few days and the tree in the pics is one we planted last year in memory of his father. He is s...
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Cant believe this!

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 Got the drone up yesterday for some pics after I cut the grass at the spiral. Cant believe how perfect the spiral turned out. Amazing what you can do with a load of pallets and a long rope. To get a gist of the size, thats a car in the top of a the pic.  Walk in checking out all the special ancestral oaks on the way and then make a wish at the Irish yew in the centre.  Walk out again chanting "om mani padme hum".  Thats a wee ritual I do at our spiritual oak spiral.  In the future you'll be able to help yourself with an apple in the next field as thats where we have over 600 heritage Irish apple trees.  There is something very therapeutic about cutting the grass at the spiral. I love doing it. Cant wait for all the trees grow up around the path over the years creating a dense woodland with a spiral walkway through it.  This is going to be such a special place that will hopefully live on for a thousand years to come and still promoting phantom planting...
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Love this!!!

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 Love this guy's!!!  Got our spiral all cut today. This spiral is lined with the ancestors of the most iconic oaks in the UK and Ireland with an Irish Yew in the centre. A portal to the Tuatha De Danann.  To get an idea of the size the in the top of the pic is cars.  I don't read messages or comments. I'm just sharing my work to help inspire you to phantom plant a tree and be the positive antidote in the world right now.  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 Wee Betty
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Nepal here we go!

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 Me and a good mate of mine are heading to Nepal end of May for the reopening of the Tergar Osel Ling Buddhist monastery that was destroyed in the last earthquake back in 2015. We were wondering what type of footwear we should get as we are making this a bit of a hiking/backpacking trip and my first thought was sandals. For years now I have always been wanting a pair of sandals for everyday use and for hiking also. Makes so much sense to have our feet out in the open as much as possible. I wanted to buy a pair of these before and an ex GF I had said she wouldn't be seen out with me in sandals.  Amazing how these little seeds get planted in your head and put you off.  I have been called names already from wearing them. One person called me Jesus and another said am I becoming a monk now.  I told my old best mate that I was going to become a monk as a joke when he seen me in the sandals and he said - "well will you let me buy you your robes then".  I couldn't stop...
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Caught by the balls

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  As most of you know I dont get funding for what I do. This is just me and wee Betty running around phantom planting trees and sharing it on here. Back when I started about 7/8 years ago I had just given up drink and drugs and decided to use that money I was saving and buying trees to phantom plant for nature and the community to enjoy. I thought this would be the perfect positive antidote practice to a very negative dark hole I was trying to get out off.  Looking back now its worked. My body, mind and soul is in a very different place with all this planting and chanting. Thousands of fruit trees we have phantom planted and thousands upon thousands more native trees just for nature.  All my past 6 years of posting on here is there for everyone to look back over and see. I think I can count on my hand the amount of days I haven't came on here sharing what we get up too and promoting phantom planting.  Whats also very important to me is my own spiritual journey and wh...
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Grow something mighty!

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 I have one acorn from this mighty oak tree germinating right now. Amazing to think that this is what tiny acorns grow into one day! Its old trees like this that we all need to get out collecting seeds from and growing up for phantom planting.  I climbed inside this oak and was able to hold my arms out by my side and still not be touching the tree. Oaks when they come into their last years of life start to hallow out from the inside out. They basically melt back into the ground to where they came from. 300 years growing, 300 years standing proud and 300 years to die is what some say is the life of an oak tree.  This oak is over 1000 years old. Think of the life its supported over that time. When you plant trees its a good deed that just keeps on giving.  I challenge you all to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty
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Phantom planted plum trees thriving!

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 Love these 2 plum trees by the side of the road at Seaforde layby on the way to Newcastle. These pics were taken yesterday and check out the flowers on these beauties!  If the bees do their work all these flowers will turn into plums.  I think a week ago they would have been even better, I cant get time to get around seeing them all in flower as I've that many. Facebook memories are amazing though for keeping me up to date when they flowered in the past years. You can notice that they dont always flower at the exact same time every year. Phenology is the word for these seasonal differences.  I phantom planted these plum trees about 8 years ago and they have thrived ever since.  I have fruit trees phantom planted at lots of laybys from Belfast out to Newcastle. This is me and wee Betty's regular route to the Mourne Mountains and for years now we have just been phantom planting fruit trees as and where we can along the way. And thats exactly what we did yesterday...
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