The Robin Hood oak lives on!

 Out last night seeing to my Major oak saplings, pulling all the grass away from them and give them a good mulch. 

I have 22 Major oak aka Robin Hood oak saplings from Sherwood forest planted here along the perimeter of our Lisnabreeny orchard. 

All these oaks were grown from acorns I collected from the Major oak tree back in Oct 2022. The Major oak is officially dead after being poisoned. Some tree experts thought it would be a good idea to fill the tree with concrete and embalm it in a type of plastic in an attempt to try and keep its shape. 

Oaks naturally hollow out in the middle and begin to collapse in on themselves. This concrete and plastic stuff they added was to try and stop this happening. 

Also them supports they added to the branches cant have helped either, oaks naturally drop these off to save energy and the tree was probably strained trying to keep these branches alive. 

I've seen many old oaks just drop massive branches. And it wasnt even in a storm.  Apparently they do this to conserve energy as they get old. 

They blamed climate change for this tree dying. Saying prolonged hot summers and drought caused its demise. Surely if they knew this, would they not have made sure they watered Britain's most famous tree?

Like they went to so much effort in other ways trying to prolong its life, but they forget to water it?

Anyhow guys, just outside Belfast at our Lisnabreeny community orchard 22 of the The Major Oaks babies are growing away like champions. 

There is actually 23 altogether here as the other one is in The Phantom Planters Oak Spiral. 

This autumn guys I'm really going to be promoting that everyone gets out and collects acorns of our ancient trees to grow them up for Phantom Planting. 

I also want you to be looking out for good old healthy ash trees. This is important we all start looking now. I have a couple in mind that are laden with ash keys/seeds. If you see old ash trees with no ash die back we all need to be seed collecting from these trees. 

Its the only way to try and save the ash tree is we all get out there and spread the healthy seeds. 

Some old ash trees seem to be immune to ash die back. Its these ones we need to get phantom planting from. 

Population is rising fast on these islands, and all this is at the expense of nature. We all need to start now living more symbiotically. Its give and take guys. Time to level up. 

 I challenge you to phantom plant a tree 

Peace and love 

The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty