After the song, all gathered proceeded towards the Von Sieboldgarden in the Hortus Botanicus, to witness the planting of the Seed of Peace by the Japanese Ambassador. This story dates back to Hiroshima of 60 years ago, where a woman with the intent to commit suicide decided to live on after seeing how a tree, also a victim of the nuclear bomb, sprouted new leaves. Deciding that if the tree would live, so would she, the plans were made to spread the seeds of this tree, the "tree of peace" throughout the world.

The first of these seeds was planted in Italy, the second in France, and the third at the Hortus in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Sadly, the video is not the most clear, due to the amount of press active at such an event; I did the best I could but when you have to spend 20 minutes on the tips of your toes, arms stretched to allow the camera some view, you start to appreciate the sacrifices you have to make for your hobby. The press people truly took away the first-hand experience of 40 people in the back, in order to provide a watered-down, selected, second-hand reliving of the event for hundreds of others. For good money, of course. Sad, but it happens.