The Phantom Planter

 Not long now until we start to plant up our spiral oak grove and the heritage Irish orchard we are expanding.  Busy winter here coming up. Love planting trees in winter when they are dormant, then in springtime its pure excitement waiting on them come to life.  Never did I think I would get so much joy from planting trees.  First tree I ever phantom planted was about 10 years ago. It was an apple tree just randomly planted along the side of the road in the heart of Belfast.  I planted this for a laugh just to see what would happen.  Back then I was an alcoholic and drug addict. Have no idea why I went and done this, but me and my mate and all the kids had some fun doing.  Back then I was right in the thick of the underworld, was even worse than what I was growing up. Things weren't good. I had to leave the country for a bit and lost my businesses and house.  Tough times tough measures is how I was seeing thing.  Its amazing how much negativi...

 Good morning guys, just to let you know my Buddha Beds website won't be delivering to the UK anymore.  UPS was the only company that delivered mattresses and to be honest if I carried on using them I would be bankrupted.  The amount of surcharges this company takes from your account is unreal. And there is no other other way to pay them other than give them complete access to your account!!! You measure and weigh a box, print the docket, they put a hold on  your account for say £40 then when delivered they just take £160 saying its incurred an extra handling charge on the way! WTF!!! On top of all that the amount mattresses that has went missing also has been a great loss to me too.  Never again will I deal with UPS!!!  I always say that Al Capone had more compassion and understanding than some of these corporate crooks.  I have lost a fortune dealing with this company. Will put it down to a very bad experience. Still our website is delivering all ove...

 Here is the first drone picture of the completed spiral. Really couldn't be anymore happier with how its turned out.  Amazing what you can do with some pallets, ropes, mowers and lots of hard work. Just to give you an idea the size the field is ,the spiral is 430 metres long. Can't thank everyone enough who has been involved in the creation of this spiral. Especially my big druid right hand man, I'm not joking, looking after this and the orchard next to it has turned into a full time unpaid job for him. This wouldn't have happened without him! Back when I came up with the idea of the spiral and the size I was wanting to make it many people were very dismissive of the idea. My big druid mate though was the one that said, dont let your dreams be put off by others and a bit of planning, time and effort So many people have came together to make this happen, once we get this planted up with the ancient oaks we have this place will be history in the making. Everything couldn...

 Exciting day ahead here, we have this flail mower coming to cut the pathway around the oak grove spiral. Cant wait to get the drone up after to see how the spiral looks from above. Will keep you all posted. After this it will be marking out the spiral for the planting of the ancient oak trees I've been collecting. First oak tree to be planted will be from the Bowthorpe oak in Lincolnshire, said to be the largest girthed oak in the UK. I collected this oak myself from the owner of the tree when I was over visiting it. He grew it himself from acorns of The Bowthorpe and gave me it. After I seen the Bowthorpe I was straight down to see the Major Oak aka The Robin Hood oak in Sherwood Forest.  I collected many acorns from this tree a few years ago which have now grown into little oak trees. So The Robin Hood oak will be the second tree to be planted in the spiral. Not sure what the 3rd tree will be that I'm planting, I've 15 ready this year for planting with another 22 to go o...

 Me and my big Druid mate spent the afternoon yesterday tidying up after our fire we had on Halloween night. Couldnt believe how much everything burned away, I was expecting much more to take away, there was only a few wheelbarrows full of ashes and metal left to dump. After we racked up all the ashes and nails my mate spent about an hour on his hands and knees picking up all the rest of the nails. We are going back today with a medal detector to make sure we get everything, as the last thing we want is a nail to get caught in our mower. Check out one of the drone pics of the fire, you can see if you look closely to beginning of the spiral. The fire is glowing up the spiral pathway. We have the flail mower coming tomorrow to cut the path out bigger. Cant wait to get the drone back up after this to see the near perfect circle left burnt in the grass and the spiral coming out of it. Land art would you call this? Not one tree by the way got damaged in the making of any of this and not...

 Great bonfire last night for Samhain.  What a night!  Thanks to all who came.  Cant beat a good fire.  Hope you all had a good Halloween guys.  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree Peace and love  The Phantom Planter