Super Garden returns for a brand new series, Tuesday 26 April, 7.00pm Super Garden returns for a brand new series in which five up and coming garden designers compete to showcase their garden at this year's 2011 Bloom Festival.
The series returns with mentor Mary Reynolds (Ireland's only Gold Medal winner at Chelsea and a previous judge on the Super Garden). Mary will be on hand to offer our start-up designers advice and guidance as they create their Super Gardens.
We follow each designer from their initial concept and design, through the reality of the construction process to the completion of their Super Garden. With just weeks to design and build a show garden, and a budget of just € 6,000, it proves to be quite a challenge for these promising designers.
After only five short weeks from design to completion, work stops in the garden, and the SUPER GARDEN judging panel arrives. This year's panel comprises Gary Graham (Manager of Bloom), Paddy Gleeson (Horticultural Consultant with Woodies DIY) and Tim Austen (professional garden designer and Bloom Gold Medal winner).
The winner of Super Garden will be announced on the sixth and final episode of the series, when all the designers and judges meet in the more convivial atmosphere of Powerscourt House & Gardens. The prize will be awarded to the designer voted Super Garden designer 2011, and with it the life-changing opportunity to re-create their design at the prestigious Bloom 2011 and take their first step into the world of professional garden design.
Each garden designer is working on a real garden - they are given a specific brief and budget and must design a garden to the homeowners' specifications. All 5 have been given similar size gardens to work with, but each with a very different brief.
Ken Byrne won Super Garden 2011 and went on to re-creat the garden at Bloom 2011 were he won a Bronze Medal
The series returns with mentor Mary Reynolds (Ireland's only Gold Medal winner at Chelsea and a previous judge on the Super Garden). Mary will be on hand to offer our start-up designers advice and guidance as they create their Super Gardens.
We follow each designer from their initial concept and design, through the reality of the construction process to the completion of their Super Garden. With just weeks to design and build a show garden, and a budget of just € 6,000, it proves to be quite a challenge for these promising designers.
After only five short weeks from design to completion, work stops in the garden, and the SUPER GARDEN judging panel arrives. This year's panel comprises Gary Graham (Manager of Bloom), Paddy Gleeson (Horticultural Consultant with Woodies DIY) and Tim Austen (professional garden designer and Bloom Gold Medal winner).
The winner of Super Garden will be announced on the sixth and final episode of the series, when all the designers and judges meet in the more convivial atmosphere of Powerscourt House & Gardens. The prize will be awarded to the designer voted Super Garden designer 2011, and with it the life-changing opportunity to re-create their design at the prestigious Bloom 2011 and take their first step into the world of professional garden design.
Each garden designer is working on a real garden - they are given a specific brief and budget and must design a garden to the homeowners' specifications. All 5 have been given similar size gardens to work with, but each with a very different brief.
Ken Byrne won Super Garden 2011 and went on to re-creat the garden at Bloom 2011 were he won a Bronze Medal