With props to the Bloom Website here:

A Look Back at Bloom 2015 Awards

Show Gardens

The judging panel awarded a total of 25 medals to show garden designers including; 7 Gold, 6 Silver Gilt, 7 Silver and 2 Bronze. The overall category winners were:

·         Large Garden: Our Origin is Green, designed by Jane McCorkell

·         Medium Garden: Darkness into Light, designed by Niall Maxwell

·         Small Garden: Beech Park, designed by Fingal County Council and IT Blanchardstown

·         Concept Garden: Pan, designed by Liat & Oliver Schurmann

Floral & Nursery Marquee

A total of 44 medals were awarded to exhibitors within the Floral & Nursery Marquee with 9 gold medals; 7 silver-gilt; 17 silver and 11 bronze. The Best in Show award was presented to Kilmurry Nursery, run by Orla and Paul Woods from Gorey, Co. Wexford.

Association of Irish Floral Artists (AOIFA)

The AOIFA Awards saw 29 medals awarded this year across four individual categories. Marie Dodrill from Louth won ‘Best in Show’ for her entry within the Lines of Beauty category.

Special Awards

On Sunday afternoon, the Designers’ Choice Award, a much sought-after accolade whereby the participating show garden designers vote for their favourite garden, was awarded to Darkness into Light – The Pieta House Garden, designed by Niall Maxwell. The garden also received The People’s Choice Award as voted by the Bloom visitors.

There were 7 postcard gardens at Bloom – 2m x 3m plots developed by garden clubs, societies and relevant associations. Villierstown Gardening Club garden was awarded ‘Best Postcard Garden’.

Twelve Botanical Artists were awarded a total of 21 medals for their original pieces of art on display in the Phoenix Park Visitors Centre.

Finally, Mr. Jeffares Blackcurrants from Wexford were awarded ‘Best Stand’ within the Bord Bia Food Village and Kilmurry Nursery scooped the same title within the Floral Marquee.

Kilmallock

Darkness into light 2015

We are delighted to be associated with this fantastic initiative to help some light break into the darkness in people’s lives.

Darkness Into Light is the flagship fundraising and awareness event for Pieta House, and without your support, they could not have helped so many people in suicidal distress and engaging in self-harm over the last nine years. With close to 80,000 participants last year, how could it get any bigger? But it has, and now Darkness Into Light is celebrated in 80 venues in Ireland and much further afield.

The medieval town of Kilmallock is a venue this year for the first time and we are helping with some of the lighting to help light up and display the fantastic medieval backdrop that is the town of Kilmallock to this years event. The town  still contains some fantastic buildings standing since the early days, although the original site of the town has moved and wandered a bit. It is also a medieval walled town with much of the walls still standing.

If you haven’t visited the town before , you are in for a treat as you will get a chance to see the glory that it is as it changes from Darkness into Dawn.

To get an entry form or to help support this initiative and aid the great work being done by Pieta house you can click HERE to go directly to the sign-up page.

Town Walls, Kilmallock

Medieval Priory, Kilmallock