Sligo garden designer will feature Bord Bia Bloom
BORD Bia has announced that Sligo native show garden designer Leonie Cornelius will showcase at this year’s Bord Bia Bloom. Now in its 18th year, Ireland’s favourite festival of flowers, food and fun, returns to the Phoenix Park, Dublin, this June bank holiday weekend (May 30 – June 3).
While the event organisers are finalising the show line-up and getting ready to launch this year’s festival, show garden designers are already hard at work preparing for what is due to be another action-packed Bord Bia Bloom. At the centre of the festival, the show gardens are the ‘jewel in the crown’ and feature bold, thought-provoking and innovative designs from a pool of talented garden designers from around Ireland.
Among these are Leonie Cornelius, an award winning garden designer, interior architect and author based on the North-west coast of Ireland. Originally from Germany, she grew up in County Sligo, before moving to Leitrim in recent years. Her design practice wild
den creates wild inspired, custom designs for private clients and select brands and has received various medals both in Ireland and the UK.
Leonie’s philosophy as a designer is rooted in creating spaces of joy and connection which bring the wild and humans together for a sustainable and hopeful approach to our collective future. Leonie has won numerous medals and awards at Bord Bia Bloom since she entered her first garden in 2012. This is her fifth show garden.
Leonie will be designing ÓIR -The Zarbee's Garden, sponsored by Zarbees.
From the Irish for ‘golden’, Óir is a wild balcony garden space that takes its inspiration from the power of the wild and the precious liquid gold produced by bees in our gardens and which also features in Zarbee's products. The design aims to promote connection in an often disconnected world. The garden will explore ideas on wellbeing, how planting can attract both glimmers of light and life to the smallest spaces and how the tiniest things can bring the greatest joy.community groups nationwide.