The Phantom Planter

 Check out my heritage apple trees! 200 grafts I did a few months ago and only 3 of them didnt make it. Not bad results at all.  Every year thats all I want to be doing from now on is grafting 200 Heritage Irish apple trees and phantom plant them at my leisure around Belfast.  I wont be taking on anymore major plantations like our Lisnabreeny Community Orchard or the oak spiral again. Trying to raise money for projects like this is a head melt.  600 apple trees I grew for the Lisnabreeny site, which would cost in and around £12K minimum if you were to buy these and I think I managed to raise about £2k of that. Most of this project has been funded and paid for by my own money and time. No way would I want to be depending on donations again. It really put me under pressure and took the fun out of it for me.  I also dont have the same desire or motivation to be posting on here all the time. I will however always be out planting and chanting, its just what I do....

 Many people sending me messages to see if I'm ok here in Belfast. Yes I'm all good in the Buddhahood guys, thanks for asking.  Me and Wee Betty are still out looking after the phantom planted trees. We went to check on these plum trees in the pic yesterday. We phantom planted these around 8 years ago and they are thriving. Full of plums this year! I was literally cutting grass around some phantom planted fruit trees the other night there and the sky behind me was filled with black smoke from a riot. As houses and cars were burning I still had to get on with keeping my part of the hood looking like a nature loving Buddhahood. The grass keeps growing and the trees still need looking after.  Please support my work guys.  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

 "Let The dead bury the dead"... JC said those caught up in worldly affairs are spiritually dead.  Leave them all to it and concentrate on your own spiritual path.  The Buddha left the Eightfold path which is a step by step guide on how to attain spiritual enlightenment.  Keep your karma right and you can dodge a lot of suffering in life. What ever suffering befalls on an individual is a result of his or her karma is what the Buddhas say.  Dont let the fear of what could happen make nothing happen. Progress spiritually today!  JC said we are all here through Sin. I believe this. The Buddha also said its our own karma has us here. Sin and Karma to me are the same thing.  Do we really think we are going to purify ourselves while being filled with hate and divisiveness?  This realm we live in is called the slaughter house in Buddhism. This is where karmic debts are settled. We will never be able to change this realm. Its just how it is, under the con...

  Have been pulling out and potting up lots of iconic baby oak trees that I sowed directly into the spiral a few months ago. I cant believe how many has grown. I really only need one of each oak at spiral so all these extras as you can see in the pics I have been potting them up and I'm going to sell them off.  These oaks have been grown from acorns collected by the Paramili-Trees SAS (special acorn service) division from the top 50 Great British famous trees. Then sent to me and propagated in The Phantom Planters magical spiral and now the extras have been potted up for you to have.  Some of the ones I potted up yesterday.  Darley oak. a 1000 year old tree in Cornwall Magog oak, well over 1000 years old in Glastonbury. This tree is probably the most iconic of them all with the myths and legends that surround them. There was old oaks 2 here, Gog and Magog. Gog is dead but I was very lucky to get acorns last year from Magog as its been in steady decline for many years...

 Haven't been posting too much lately about my tree work. Too be honest I cant be annoyed. I have more been connecting to the moment with the trees rather than documenting and sharing it. We get carried away at times feeling we have to share and tell everyone  all that we are doing on here which is taking us away from being present.  These places are so anxiety inducing at times also. We all need to be spending less time on here and more time out in nature without our phones. Be careful getting carried away with likes and praise on here. For if your moved by praise you'll certainly be annoyed by the slightest bit of criticism. Remain centred and unbothered by outside opinions for your own peace of mind. We attach too much pleasure and pain through words.  Takes a lot of effort also keeping social media platforms up to date. But every day I'm still out tending to the trees, watering the oaks at the spiral, which are all looking amazing btw, cutting grass and keeping p...

 Making the most of the good weather.  Most of my life I was a wheeler dealer. Selling everything from perfume to double decker buses. You name it I've sold it. I had my finger in so many pies I didn't have time for much else.  What happened to me trying to be ace in the ratrace was I lost sight of myself. I didn't know who I was. I had no hobbies or interests that didn't involve making money. Money was my God. Nothing else mattered apart from the paper and digits.  I created many selfish attachments living this way. I became an alcoholic and a drug addict with this money hungry lifestyle.  At about the age of 30 my life took a massive downward spiral. My negative karma was ripening fast and furious.  Things couldn't have gotten any worse and this went on for many years until one day I got disqualified from the monopoly board. Meaning I was made bankrupt!  The system came in on top of me and took the lot. To be honest Al Capone would have had a bit mor...