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28.06.2023 - 09:47 / irishtimes.com
From a fantasy chocolate river with edible plants to a garden that is designed largely from reclaimed materials, Bloom festival aims to inspire gardeners this weekend at the Phoenix Park.
The flowers, food and family festival expects to welcome over 100,000 visitors across the weekend, with 22 show gardens and feature gardens alongside a series of 85 demos, talks and live entertainment from Thursday.
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The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s show garden, inspired by the new production of Broadway and the West End’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical, will be sure to catch eyes with its floating hat and purple chocolate river.
Tom Leavy, who has worked with Bord Bia’s Bloom for the past five seasons, designed and built the World of Pure Imagination garden, his first solo project for the festival.
Leavy said he was a “big fan” of Roald Dahl books and he started to create his design just before Christmas.
“I wanted to make an echo and give a nod to the chocolate room in the original Charlie film and the book. And this is a fantasy world,” he said.
Every plant in the garden is either edible or medicinal, and the design is “very sustainable,” according to Leavy, “to link in and tie back in with the sweets and chocolate, so this is a sweet shop for a modern era.”
“Aesthetically you can grow food and even on a smaller scale you can incorporate food into your backyard or into your garden, that’s something, if there is one thing I’d like people to take away from the garden, this is it, that you can have food production that’s sustainable,” Leavy added.
Tusla Child and Family Agency launched their first sponsored garden at Bord Bia Bloom, alongside Tusla
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