5 June 2018
By Sharon Noonan |
June 7, 2018

In this episode of Best Possible Taste, Sharon Noonan visits Bloom and meets award winning designer Andrew Christopher Dunne and BIM CEO Jim O Toole in the BIM Sustainable Seafood Garden which won Best In Show 2018.

BIM Bloom4

Garden Designer Andrew Dunne is pictured at the garden he designed -The Sustainable Seafood Garden supported by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) at this year’s Bloom in the Park, the marine garden is a celebration of Ireland’s seafood industry and tells the story of sustainable Irish seafood from tide to table. Pic: Stuart McNamara / Jason Clarke Photography

Alan Rudden and Caroline Park are in the Santa Rita Living La Vida 120 garden which also won an accolade at this year’s Bloom.

Santa Rita Life is Ros+® - Bloom 2018

And finally we hear Pat Mulcahy,owner of Ballinwillin House and Farm in Mitchelstown, Co Cork talk about his organic deer, wild boar and goat farm also an ahead of the launch of his mediation garden.  This interview is compliments of CRY FM.

Patrick & Miriam Mulcahy Ballinwillin House May 17 26

Patrick Mulcahy, Ballinwillin House, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. Photo: Donal O’ Leary

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Alan Rudden,Andrew Christopher Dunne,Ballinwillin,Best Possible Taste,BIM,Bloom,Caroline Park,Jim O Toole,Pat Mulcahy,Santa Rita,Sharon Noonan

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