The weekend before last my mother and I spent a lovely day at Bloom Festival which was held in the Phoenix Park. For those of you residing outside our fair green isle, Bloom is Ireland's largest gardening and food event. It's a bit like the Chelsea flower show in England. There were 30 amazing show gardens on display, a floral marquee with over 50 exhibitors, an Irish craft village and over 120 Irish artisan food producers. The weather might not have been the best but it's hard to dampen the Irish spirit...
Here are some of my best bits...
...a dreamy New England style beach garden...
Cape Cod Escape - Silver Medal
...a seemingly simple yet captivating concept garden...
'Messenger' - Gold Medal and Best in Category Winner
...the mildly comical yet genius silver-gilt winning Tayto Garden...
For those of you who don't recognise this guy, he is Mr.Tayto of the famous Irish crisps.
The planting was inspired by the ingredients involved in crisp making!!
...from Potato
...to Packet....
...a North American cranberry farm I want to live in...
Wellbeing Wetlands - Gold Medal
...and not forgetting silver-gilt winning D'Garden...
...a typical inner city garden that Mrs. Brown herself might boast.
Mrs.Brown being Ireland's most famous mammy!!
There were hanging baskets like none I have ever seen...
Why even President Higgins couldn't resist popping in...
Well it is technically in his back garden!!
Oh that looks like fun. I love the cranberry farm one as well...so cute.
ReplyDeleteFabulous pictures, thanks for sharing. Wish I could have been there, looks like it was a brill display, x
ReplyDeleteWow, what fab photos, love the New England Garden :)
ReplyDeleteAll things nice...