Meet Jimmy the apple tree!

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 This


is Jimmy the apple tree. My first ever phantom planted 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 11 years ago I planted Jimmy in waterlogged ground. I had never planted a tree in my life before. 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 other people living in your family home.

Went down once a few years ago and couldn't believe Jimmy was growing away. 7 years I'm gone from the street now and have only been down a few times since then. 

Yesterday I went down and I couldnt believe my eyes, check out the flowers on Jimmy this year!

Someone in the street has clearly been looking after Jimmy, thank you to whoever you are. 


You have no idea how many people told me back then that Jimmy would not survive. Against all the odds for year after year Jimmy kept putting out flowers in the wet muddy field. Some years it looked dead with just one or two small leaves. 

But look at Jimmy now guys!!!


I believe Jimmy survived because I named him and showed him love, and always having a chat with him also every time I passed. 


It seems also that Jimmy has replicated my own life , suffering and growth in some way. Back then when I planted Jimmy I was a mess. A full on alcoholic and drug addict I was. 

I had just lost my businesses also and my own home along with a family break up. Things couldn't have been any worse!

I was also made bankrupt and had no other choice but to move in with my dad again in the room I was raised in. My dads house was also a safe place for me back then from other gangs that were after me. I messed up big time. All my own karma though coming back to haunt me. 


As Jimmy struggled to live so was I. The more Jimmy begun to thrive over the years so I begun to thrive also. 

There's definitely magic and mystery in planting trees and connecting with nature on a holistic and spiritual level. 


Fast forward today and I've lost count how many thousands of fruit trees I've phantom planted and how many more that I've inspired others to phantom plant. 


Its been some journey guys and the journey is not over yet. I'm leaving behind forests, orchards and hoods turned into nature loving Buddhahoods. 


Please do support this grassroots mission.


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Soil, Soul and Society. All interconnected and interdependent.


I challenge you to phantom plant a tree 


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty

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