BLOOMING GREAT GARDEN DESIGNS

Super Garden returns for a new series and this time families in a Co. Meath housing estate will have their outdoor spaces transformed

The recent soggy weather has delayed many grand plans for gardening, so sit back and take inspiration from the new series of Super Garden, which begins this week on RTÉ.

The location for this year’s series is Connaught Grove in Athboy, Co. Meath, a recent development by Meath County Council for social housing.

Here, five households will have their gardens transformed by the designers, and the three Super Garden judges will have their work cut out for them to pick a winner.

For the winning designer, it’s a launch pad to the premier league of garden design and a chance to show what they can do when their super garden is recreated at Bord Bia Bloom, with more than 100,000 visitors experiencing their garden.

Each designer is given three weeks and a budget of €15,000 to design and create their garden.

Kerrie Gardiner joins the judges this year. She is the show garden and horticulture content manager for Bord Bia Bloom and a landscape architect, and she’ll join Monica Alvarez and Brian Burke on the judging panel.

In the first episode, Gary Hegarty from Derry designs a garden for Keelin and Anthony and their kids Ellie, Jackson and Fury. The family is hoping Gary can create

Gary Hegarty (centre) this week designs a garden for a family of five in Co. Meath for Super Garden a sensory garden for five-yearold Fury, who has autism.

Gary is a graphic designer and alongside his day job he has studied for a FdSc in Horticulture. His interest in gardening came about when he bought his own home around 15 years ago, experimenting with plants and making it up as he went along. n Super Garden is on RTÉ One on Tuesday, at 7pm.