Sustainability and the circular economy are among the main themes at this year’s Bord Bia Bloom event, at Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
Now in its 19th year, over 100,000 visitors are expected to attend what is the country’s largest gardening festival across the next five days.
Bord Bia Bloom is hosting 21 show and feature gardens, with issues relating to climate change, the environment, and sustainable living featuring strongly.
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This includes 11 ‘Postcard Gardens’ created by community groups from all over the country, 16 environmental and conservationist groups in the conservation area, as well as 17 Irish plant nurseries and floral artists exhibiting.
Over 100 food and drink companies are exhibiting at the event, which also includes live talks, demonstrations, and musical performances.
Gary Kirwan’s Lego garden … made up of more than 800,000 individual Lego pieces @BordBiaBloom pic.twitter.com/LrrL0Bt8Hg
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Bord Bia Bloom is aiming to be the most sustainably operated large-scale event in the country.
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Organisers say that last year over 21,000 litres of water were used to refill reusable bottles at hydration stations, two tonnes of used coffee grounds were collected and donated to the OPW for use in composting, and over 20,000 visitors travelled to the event using public transport.
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President Michael D Higgins, a patron of Bloom, will officially open the festival with an address this afternoon.
The event runs from 9am to 6pm daily until Monday, 2 June.
