Andrew Christopher Dunne won the overall large show garden award for Hit Pause, The Caragh Nurseries Garden at this year’s Bord Bia Bloom. And Alan Rudden won best in category medium show garden for the Savills Urban Oasis Garden. That means they’ve each won four and seven gold medals respectively at this event.
The gold-medal-winning show garden designers who are new to Bord Bia Bloom included Niall Deacon for his Eureka Garden sponsored by Solus Light Bulbs, Sean Russell’s National Dairy Council Sustainable Dairy Farm Garden, and Seán O’Malley and Oisín Griffin for the Peter McVerry Trust Pathways to Home Garden.
Mike Neary, director of horticulture, Bord Bia said: “As Bord Bia Bloom returns as an in-person event for the first time in three years, we are hugely encouraged by the calibre of new horticultural talent emerging alongside some of our incredibly creative and experienced show garden designers. The judges were hugely impressed by the attention to detail, quality of planting, and sense of atmosphere created in this year’s displays.”
Bord Bia Bloom continues in the Phoenix Park until Monday 6 June. The festival is set to attract over 100,000 visitors this year and features 19 show gardens, 9 postcard gardens, over 80 Irish food and drink producers, 18 plant nurseries, 25 live cookery demonstrations with some of Ireland’s best-known chefs and some 130 retailers, all within a 70-acre site.