Designers’ creativity comes in to Bloom
LOCALS’ STUNNING SHOW GARDENS GO ON DISPLAY IN THE PHOENIX PARK
THE creative talents of Wicklow garden designers Melanie Webb, Tünde Szentesi, Peter O’Brien and the Dementia Friendly Garden Team will be on show at Bord Bia’s Bloom this June Bank Holiday weekend.
The five-day event which returns to the Phoenix Park in Dublin from tomorrow (Thursday, May 31) until Monday, June 4, showcasing the best of Ireland’s horticulture and food industry. There will be 20 spectacular show gardens, many garden and floral features, installations and talks, more than 100 food producers, 25 live cookery demonstrations with some of Ireland’s best loved chefs and a host of activities and entertainment for all the family.
Veteran Bloom garden designer Tünde Szentesi, who is based in Calary, will be returning this year to create a show garden in which visitors can get ready to sing and dance, laugh and love all over again ahead of the release of Universal Picture’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Agaain!
Tünde will create a Greekstyle garden inspired by ABBA songs, capturing the exotic location of Kalokairi with its beautiful landscape and Greek architecture, including the famous Hotel Bella Donna.
‘Moments in Time – Demen- tia:
Understand
Together
Garden’ is a collaboration between Baltinglass-based landscape garden company Newtown Saunders Ltd, university research centre TrinityHaus, and the dementia training organisa- tion, Sonas apc. Their show garden will be a gentle space that facilitates understanding, togetherness and connection with nature, drawing on a strong evidence-base of dementia-friendly design and the lived experience of dementia. It features a short, multi-sensory walk leading to a central seating area and a gallery installation comprising photographs that depict family, social roles and community as a reminder of the richness of signer Melanie Webb is making her debut at Bloom this year with a show garden that evokes a sense of wild County Wicklow within a low-maintenance suburban, urban garden.
Entitled ‘Growing Shed Garden’, the design is about increas-