Tree planting under way at Field of Dreams

There's nothing like the 150-plus people of last February out for the second GAA Community Tree Planting on site today, writes Brian Byrne. But those who are out wielding shovels and trowels are enthusiastically tackling the 2,500-trees initiative.

Once again the technical oversight is by Catriona Taylor of Blessington Lakes Garden Centre, who advises on the 100 Million Trees Project which supplied the saplings to this local project that's part of the Field of Dreams undertaking. "There's really been a big change here since February," she told the Diary, looking around at the green sward that next year will see the dream fully a reality. And certainly, while conditions today include a fair share of mud, they are very much easier than those that pertained earlier in the year.

All the trees once again are native Irish Irish species including rowan, birch, oak, Scots pine, crab apple, whitethorn and hazel.

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