Undoubtedly the glorious sunshine over the bank holiday weekend helped to attract huge crowds to the 70 acre site in Phoenix Park.
Since the first Bloom event in 2007, the festival has doubled in size.
Speaking on Monday, the last day of the festival, Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive of Bord Bia commented, “It is clear that Bloom has become an important fixture in Ireland’s summer calendar, with visitors enjoying the very best of Ireland’s food and horticulture industry."
As the festival draws to a close, Bord Bia has released some of the event facts and figures from the last five days:
A total of 4,000 people worked onsite over the 5 days including 200 volunteersIt will take 14 days to clear the Bloom site (it took 31 days to build Bloom)Some 123 Bloom medals and awards were presented to garden designers, nurseries, floral artists, botanical artists and exhibitorsThis year’s show featured 23 exquisite show gardensOver 46,000 ice-creams and 40,000 bottles of water were enjoyed in the sunshine over the festivalThe Irish Country Magazine garden, Serene Sanctuary, designed by Alan Coffey, received a gold medal from the judges this year. This is the second year Irish Country Magazine has entered a show garden into the awards and the second time it has received a gold medal at Bloom.
The Irish Farmers Journal visited Bloom this year and caught up with potato producers Finnegan and Sons, who were launching their added-value potato products.
We also spoke to Barry Kavanagh, designer of the gold medal-winning garden Across Boundaries, which represents how social farming can play a vital role in the therapy of participants in the healthcare system.
Before leaving we also caught up with Fiann Ó'Nualláin, designer of Irish Country Magazine's award-winning garden at Bloom 2015, and designer of this year's 1916 Commemoration Garden.
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Record number of gold medals awarded at Bloom 2016
Undoubtedly the glorious sunshine over the bank holiday weekend helped to attract huge crowds to the 70 acre site in Phoenix Park.
Since the first Bloom event in 2007, the festival has doubled in size.
Speaking on Monday, the last day of the festival, Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive of Bord Bia commented, “It is clear that Bloom has become an important fixture in Ireland’s summer calendar, with visitors enjoying the very best of Ireland’s food and horticulture industry."
As the festival draws to a close, Bord Bia has released some of the event facts and figures from the last five days:
A total of 4,000 people worked onsite over the 5 days including 200 volunteersIt will take 14 days to clear the Bloom site (it took 31 days to build Bloom)Some 123 Bloom medals and awards were presented to garden designers, nurseries, floral artists, botanical artists and exhibitorsThis year’s show featured 23 exquisite show gardensOver 46,000 ice-creams and 40,000 bottles of water were enjoyed in the sunshine over the festivalThe Irish Country Magazine garden, Serene Sanctuary, designed by Alan Coffey, received a gold medal from the judges this year. This is the second year Irish Country Magazine has entered a show garden into the awards and the second time it has received a gold medal at Bloom.
The Irish Farmers Journal visited Bloom this year and caught up with potato producers Finnegan and Sons, who were launching their added-value potato products.
We also spoke to Barry Kavanagh, designer of the gold medal-winning garden Across Boundaries, which represents how social farming can play a vital role in the therapy of participants in the healthcare system.
Before leaving we also caught up with Fiann Ó'Nualláin, designer of Irish Country Magazine's award-winning garden at Bloom 2015, and designer of this year's 1916 Commemoration Garden.
Read more
Listen: Irish celebrities reveal their favourite flower at Bloom 2016
Record number of gold medals awarded at Bloom 2016
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