Our sincere thanks to President Higgins and Sabina Higgins for embracing our project and contributing towards planting the seeds for change by having the first site of the 2024-2025 season planted on the grounds of the President’s residence at the Áras an Uachtaráin.  Thanks also to the staff of the Áras and especially Brenda Hession and Claire Power.   Thanks to the OPW staff for their preparation of this beautiful site and their planting and enthusiasm for the project.  Our sincere gratitude  to the AIB and Uniphar for their sponsorship of the project.  Thanks also to Catriona Taylor, Laura Finn, Martin Blake, Frankie Greene, None so Hardy and Annaveigh nurseries, Forestry Services Ltd, Iarla Mongey, Caroline Lowey, Maurice and Pauline Pratt, Darren Lancaster and youngsters from the next generation of the Mulcahy family who were all present on the day.