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Shows / Bord Bia Bloom

Bord Bia Bloom 2025

29 May – 2 Jun 2025 Dublin, Ireland
21
Gardens
21
Designers
19
Awarded

About

Bord Bia Bloom 2025 unfolds from May 29 to June 2 in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, transforming 70 acres into a vibrant celebration of gardening, food, and sustainable living. Now in its 19th year, the festival showcases 21 meticulously designed Show Gardens that address themes ranging from biodiversity and climate resilience to mental health and urban greening. Notable installations include the Repak Most Sorted Garden, emphasizing circular economy principles, and the European Commission’s Renewed Blooms Garden, which repurposes materials to blend nature with human-made elements. The festival also features the Botanical Hub, offering live demonstrations and hands-on workshops on topics like floral crown making and houseplant care. Visitors can explore the Nursery Village, meet growers, and purchase a wide selection of plants from Irish nurseries. Culinary enthusiasts can enjoy over 100 artisan food producers in the Food Hall and attend live cooking demonstrations by renowned chefs such as Donal Skehan and Neven Maguire. Families are catered to with the Budding Bloomers Children’s Area, featuring face painting, crafting, and performances from popular children’s entertainers. With its rich blend of horticultural inspiration, gourmet experiences, and family-friendly activities, Bord Bia Bloom 2025 offers a comprehensive and engaging experience for all attendees.
Gardens

21 gardens catalogued

Large Show Gardens 3

  • A large show garden features a timber pergola shading a black curved bench, surrounded by lush, colourful mixed planting and a gravel path leading to a circular patio with bright pink and green accent lines.
    Fostering IS For You
    Pip Probert
  • A naturalistic show garden features a stone water basin, a rectangular pool, a tall recycled bottle sculpture, and green and white plants.
    Repak Most Sorted Garden
    James Purdy
  • A large, naturalistic show garden features a tall, open timber structure enclosing a birch tree, surrounded by diverse ornamental grasses, flowering shrubs, and stacked stone walls.
    The Grass Advantage
    Robert Moore

Medium Show Gardens 6

  • A modern urban garden features a timber pergola with a curved slatted sofa and wooden deck, flanked by a metal grid path through lush planting and a small pond.
    Citroën Downsizers' Garden
    Louise Checa
  • A contemporary garden features a silver dandelion sculpture, rusty metal arbour, curved concrete planters, white birch trees, with purple and green planting.
    Make-A-Wish Garden of Hope
    Linda McKeown
  • A tranquil modern rustic garden with a large flagstone patio, wooden lounge furniture, a rendered wall with arched alcoves, and naturalistic planting.
    Nourish - The Caragh Nurseries Garden
    Leonie Cornelius
  • A vibrant wildlife garden features a hot pink fence with a mandala, a black pergola, a blue hanging swing, and a lawn path to a patio with teal chairs.
    Super Garden Winner - 'Bee Happy' Wildlife Garden
    Debbie Brophy
  • A naturalistic medium show garden with a stacked wooden bug hotel, a blue chair, barrel table, and vibrant lime green foliage among mixed herbaceous plants.
    The European Commission's 'Renewed Blooms' Garden
    David Negus
  • A contemporary garden features a black conical fireplace, two beige lounge chairs on a light patio, under a rusted metal canopy, with wild grasses.
    The Support Garden
    Joe Eustace

Small Show Gardens 6

  • A vibrant balcony garden features a bright yellow wall, a vertical planter full of herbs, a wooden dining table, and an orange bistro set, all surrounded by lush edible plants.
    GIY Balcony Garden
    Barry Kavanagh
  • A dark timber boardwalk winds through a lush, green planting of ferns, grasses, and slender birch trees, leading to a large dark weathered sculpture.
    Into The Forest
    Sarah Cotterill
  • A rustic small garden features a gravel path, stone trough, and metal rooster and hen sculptures, amidst lush green plants and colourful flowers.
    Manor Farm - 250 Years Taste and Tradition
    Tünde Perry
  • A gravel path leads to black wire chairs against a black wall with a gold sculpture, surrounded by green trees and white foxgloves.
    The Estate's Essence
    Patrik Weisser
  • A vibrant balcony garden displays hexagonal wooden wall planters, a pale timber pergola, and lush pink cosmos and purple petunias against a grey wall.
    The Pink Lady Balcony
    Cornelia Raftery
  • Three large aged urns against a dark timber living wall, surrounded by lush green foliage, black stepped paving, and two light wooden chairs.
    The Pot Gallery Garden
    Alan Rudden

Concept Show Gardens 4

  • A dark dragon head sculpture with large green eyes peeks out from lush green ferns and foliage beside a still, dark pond with mossy banks and scattered rocks.
    How to Train Your Dragon Garden
    Tünde Perry, Barry Kavanagh
  • A modern ecological concept garden features a tall wooden habitat tower, light green recycled concrete paving with a water basin, and naturalistic planting against a yellow woven timber screen.
    Nature Wrapped in Gold
    Ailish Drake
  • A tall, narrow wooden structure with vertical cladding features a yellow-framed round window and a protruding wooden beam, surrounded by green trees and shrubs.
    The Early Bird Catches the Worm Garden
    Benny Magennis
  • A vibrant balcony garden constructed entirely from multicoloured LEGO bricks, featuring brick flowers in planters, a vertical garden, and a matching bench, set against a white wall.
    The Rainbow Brick Balcony Garden
    Gary Kirwan

Feature Gardens 2

  • A large, seated human figure sculpture, woven from branches and green vines, dominates a naturalistic garden with metal trellises.
    Nature's Symphony: Celebrating Organic Growth
    Liat Schurmann, Oliver Schurmann
  • A lush, informal feature garden with a light blue quonset hut style shed, a rusted fire pit, and a grey flagstone patio with stepping stones leading through mixed herbaceous borders.
    The Plant Lover's Garden - Easy Steps to Dream Gardens
    Patricia Tyrrell
Location

Where it happens

Phoenix Park
Dublin
D08 Y304
Ireland
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