List of All the Bloom 2012 Medal Winners

Bloom Medal Winners
Judging of the show gardens, nurseries and floral displays was conducted over a two day period by a panel of independent judges comprising of garden experts from Ireland and the UK. This morning a total of 81 medals were awarded including 24 Gold, 14 Silver Gilt, 22 Silver, 17 Bronze and 4 Special Commendations.

The overall large garden category award went to Jane McCorkell from Killsallaghan, County Meath for her entry “Growise ‘My Garden’. The garden which was designed as a space that can be recreated by visitors in their own homes incorporating a working garden for horticultural enthusiasts while offering an engaging space for all the family. This is Jane’s fifth year competing at Bloom and is her fifth Gold medal and second time to win the overall large garden category award.

Speaking about the show-gardens at Bloom 2012, Gary Graham, Bloom Show Manager said

“We have never had such a diverse range of styles and themes from traditional cottage gardens to ultra modern, from sedate Japanese to dramatic sculptural installations. Most gratifying for me is how designers have used both the ‘concept’ and ‘show garden’ categories as communication platforms in highly creative, engaging and fun ways to add to the debate on wider health, socioeconomic and environmental issues”.

Jane McCorkell’s winning garden revolts against ostentation and garden gimmickry. She celebrates the traditional garden where the physical activity of gardening is as important as the beauty and aesthetics achieved with deep flower borders and magnificent specimen trees. This is not a garden for corporate Ireland or the public; this is a private personal space aptly called ‘my garden’“.

Overall winners were awarded in each of the categories as follows:

• Large Garden: Growise ‘My Garden’ by Jane McCorkell

• Medium Garden: Cookie and Creams Reclaimed Sanctuary (RTE Supergarden winner) by Leonie Cornelius

• Small Garden: Greenhouse by Patricia Tyrrell and Deirdre Prince

• Concept Garden: Angel’s Fishing Rods, Mermaids Tears – A Tale of the Sea by 3Design Gardens

• Best Nursery: Mount Venus Nursery, Dublin

• AOIFA Floral Art Winner: Marie Dodrill from Portmarnock Flower Club for “Where the Dragonfly Dreams”

VIP Visitors
VIP visitors to Bloom on opening day will include Bloom Patron President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina who will officially open the event. The President will be brought on a tour of the show-garden area, meet with medal winners and judges and finish with a visit to the Bord Bia Food Village where he will deliver a Presidential address (available to download from www.president.ie .

Other visitors of note throughout the day will include Actress Caroline Morahan, Miss Ireland, Rebecca Maguire, Minister Shane McEntee, TD, Celebrity Chef Neven Maguire and Newstalk’s Sean Moncrieff who is broadcasting live from the event.

Additional Features at Bloom
Other features at Bloom include Bord Bia’s Food Village which will host the best of artisan food and drink, a Farming for Life feature and the Chef’s Summer Stage; children’s entertainment, games and an animal farmyard; a tree-climbing exhibition; daily workshops and a craft retail area from the Crafts Council of Ireland; an entertainment stage; picnic area and large retail pavilion.

Sponsors
New and returning sponsors for this year’s event include Fáilte Ireland, Love Irish Food, Bord Na Móna, Irish Times, OPW, Rehab, Woodies, Nissan LEAF, Viking, Robert Roberts, Atlantis, Popcorn Ireland, Newstalk, Irish Greyhound Board, Universal Studios, Bewleys Hotel, Lyric FM and Glenisk.

Medal Winners
Show Garden Winners 2012

Gold

Growise ‘My Garden’ by Jane McCorkell – LARGE

Super Garden – Cookie and Creams Reclaimed Sanctuary – by Leonie Cornelius MEDIUM

Summertime and the listening is easy by Paul Martin – MEDIUM

Table for 4 by Gary Hanaphy – MEDIUM

Greenhouse by Deirdre Prince and Patricia Tyrell – SMALL

Angel’s Fishing Rod’, Mermaid’s Tears – A Tale of the Sea’ by 3 Design Gardens- CONCEPT

 

Silver Gilt

The Cystic Fibrosis Garden, in Association with CF Ireland by Erika Reeves – MEDIUM

The Viking garden ‘green room’ by Frazer McDonogh – MEDIUM

Departures – by Cillian McDonald and Luke Byrne CONCEPT

 

Silver

Japanese Tea Garden by Kate Kurevleva – MEDIUM

Amach agus Isteach by Alan Rudden and David Ryan – MEDIUM

Machnamh / Reflection by Deirdre Pender – MEDIUM

Reigning Cats and Dogs by Miah O’Nuallain – SMALL

Ar Ghairdin Cuil by David Gallagher and Senior College Dun Laoighre- SMALL

NCBI Sensory Garden by Brieffni McGeough and Francis Doyle – CONCEPT

 

Bronze

Cavan Crystal Hotel Wedding Garden by Jason Stubbs – LARGE

Starberry Paradise by Andy Kelly – LARGE

Worlds apart, school together by Dominic Loughran – MEDIUM

Changing Perspectives by David Shorthall – MEDIUM

The Birds & The Bees by Ben Landers – SMALL

The Glenisk Lorax Garden by Fiann O’Nuallain – CONCEPT

Wild Metal by Jack Harte and Frank McGeeney – CONCEPT

Special Commendation

Woodies Garden 1 by Theresa Grady

Woodies Garden 2 by James Brady

Woodies Garden 3 by Clem Spratt

 

Nursery and Floral Display Awards

Gold

Camolin Potting Shed, Co. Wexford

Mr Middleton Garden Shop – Vegetables, Dublin 1

Glens Garden, UK

Devine Nurseries, UK

Boyne Garden Centre, Slane, Co. Meath

Peninsula Primulas, Ards., Co. Down

Kilmurry Nursery, Gorey, Co. Wexford

Fushsiavale Nurseries, UK

Dicksonia Direct Inc. Kells Bay Gardens, Leopardstown, Co. Dublin

Institute Of Technology Blanchardstown

Mount Venus Nursery, Dublin 1

Forest Produce Ltd., Tralee, Co. Kerry

The Indoor Plant Store, Dublin 8

Riverlane Nurseries, Trim., Co. Meath

Association Of Irish Floral Artists Floral Display


Silver Gilt

Hughes Roses, Ardcath, Dublin

Tree & Environmental Academy, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Shady Plants, Youghal, Co. Cork

Heritage Bulbs, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath

Blackwater Floral Accessories

Harrington Exotics, Saggart, Dublin

Leamore Nursey, Ashford, Co. Wicklow

 

Silver

Herb’s On Thyme, Rathangan, Co. Kildare

Ballyrobert Cottage Garden & Nursery, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim

Ashbourne Climbers, Navan, Co. Meath

Three Gates Florist & Nursery, Naul, Dublin

Rare Plants – Ireland, Dublin 22

Mr Middleton Garden Shop – Bulbs, Dublin 1

J & Jr Nurseries Nursery Display, Ballygowan, Co. Down

Two Lions Nursery, Downpatrick, Co. Down

Doran Nurseries (Irish Plants), Naas, Co. Kildare

Royal Horticultural Society Of Ireland

Seaview Nurseries, Bray, Co Wicklow

 

Bronze

Flannerys Nurseries Ltd Nursery Display, Naas, Kildare

Premium Pelargoniums (Fuchsiavale)

Garden Direct, Naas, Co. Kildare

Landbarn Nursery, Gorey, Co. Wexford

Dublin School Of Horticulture


A.O.I.F.A Floral Art Competition

Gold

Karen Robinson, Doddervale Flower Club

Marie Dodrill, Portmarnock Flower Club

Marie Dodrill, Portmarnock Flower Club

 

Silver Gilt

Karen O’Farrell, Sutton Floral Art

Marta O’Kelly,Bray Flower Club

Richard Delmar, A.O.I.F.A

Richard Delmar, A.O.I.F.A


Silver

Roseann Heaney, Navan Flower Club

Eithne Duffin-Moynihan, Doddervale Flower Club

Angela Kelly, Doddervale Flower Club

Moira Watchorn, Doddervale Flower Club

 

Bronze

Christine Hughes, Naas Flower Club

Orla McGrane, Doddervale Flower Club

Violet O’Brien, North Dublin Flower Club

Margaret Nevin, Bray Flower Club

Christopher White, Naul Gardening & Flower Club