Our local outdoor education centre, Petersburg OETC, created an incredible native Irish garden for the Bord Bia Bloom festival, to promote their National Apprenticeship in Arboriculture.
The 3x3-metre garden was designed and built by horticulturalist Aaron Toomey, who envisioned it as a kind of miniature of the local woodland – and I reckon he did a brilliant job. [Photo: Aaron Toomey]
I was really delighted to provide an authentic soundtrack of early-morning birdsong and babbling water for the garden, specially recorded in Clonbur Woods, which plays from speakers hidden in the undergrowth.
In the festival competition, the garden was awarded a Silver-Gilt medal, which is like halfway between silver and gold!
Well done to everyone involved in this great little garden.
[Video courtesy of Jeremy Ryan]