From encouraging biodiversity in new housing estates to raising awareness around fostering, festival has wide array of clever designs
Dancer Ella McElwaine from Rathfarnham in the Early Cancer Detection Is Key garden at Bloom 2024. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaillon Wednesday as organisers prepared to welcome 100,000 visitors to what is Ireland’s biggest gardening event over the coming five days.
At the Coming Home to Nature garden, designer Nicola Haines said it is linked to new guidance that Fingal County Council is giving developers, and demonstrates how biodiversity can be incorporated into new housing estates.Bids on North Dock offices fall hopelessly short of €130m sought by receivers“The garden is based around how you manage rainwater and run-off,” she said.
“There is a dark backdrop and a lot of rusty steel, so there is a kind of moody balance of materials, which represent the challenges that people face along the journey of fostering. But you can see the vibrancy and the lightness in the planting, which is the hope and love.” “When I left Ireland in the 1980s, I never thought it would be possible for a gay man to open up and have children in his house. Suddenly here I am with my partner, at over 60-years-of-age, back in beautiful Ireland with a total change of attitude.”
“The upright fins represent guidance and support for service users along their journey. There is also a double helix structure to represent DNA, and there are beautiful medicinal plants in the garden.” “I have a large number of family members who have passed away from cancer, but I was lucky because I have the knowledge that I have this mutation and I can make informed decisions.
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