I thought I'd combine my occasional HAVING A NOSEY feature to show you a
little of what I saw and loved at Bloom .
My Absolute favourite garden was the Ag cur Baisti garden
by Anu Green Designs.
What an amazing rooftop garden,
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I've never seen vertical planting
quite as brilliant as this
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Even more brilliant was the fact that this was an outdoor shower area
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More of their vertical planting against a stunning
black/slate coloured backdrop
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This is from the Urban Native garden by Doylescapes,
I have tried and failed to plant a chamomile lawn,
but this is a really clever way of doing it ,a perfect combination of soft and
hard landscaping
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more from the urban native garden
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This is the garden Sheena Vernon created on a miniscule budget,
Love the clever use of pallets for garden chairs.
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Big on my favourites list was this, The great escape by Fiann O'Nuallain
The photo doesn't do it justice as I don't have a wide angle lense
but this was a huge mound of earth covered in beautiful wild flowers
with 2 huge oars on either side with the most stunning blue wall
as a backdrop.
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Lurene Tallons The Jewel Garden,
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More vertical gardening from Maximilian Temper,
Vegetables ,herbs and fruits all growing on this wall
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My favorite of the 263 photos I took,![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiis8lTauH-KZjKkyH-RIjMjrvO5VhlQtdOpc6FRncdH9mMQ9dNkObf58Bm6HkY2eSDSm2lLo4HRBMa5Fy3sXuXol0IvtJhf-2yMmDaxbu4FvMVGo_udZCTVy0pfUGS7Hs6lNJqC5TmN42N/s400/eileens+hand+and+glasses+.jpg)
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Niall Maxwells Weekend review
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The secluded water garden by Frazer McDonogh Designs
The blue wall in the background belongs to the
great escape garden but doesn't it really work here too?
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Keelings naturally fresh garden, a magical and fruity garden
that everyone I spoke to loved. It was just so quirky.
The day we were installing the mosaic pieces a family of
ducks came down and settled into the water feature,
they were being referred to as the avant garde ducks.
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Aubergine garden :Dominick Cullinane Landscapes
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The Translucency garden of Liat and Oliver Schurmann
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And I can't resist just a little few more photos
of Gary Foran's Harmonium garden .
This is a shot of the water feature with my mosaic panels
in the background
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At the end of the show we took barriers and ropes away to
get a better shot of the entire garden.
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Another harmonium close up, This one shows the water drops
that were the symbol that inspired my design for the mosaic
panels
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A rare plant species: treenager
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It's my mother-in-law, Eileens hand and glasses,
and the plant she bought me .
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