Galway well represented on Bloom 2017 winners list

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Four medals have been awarded to garden designers and floral artists from across Galway at the prestigious Bloom festival at Dublin's Phoenix Park Merlin Woods Primary School, Doughiska and Athenry-based Burren in Bloom, have both been Commended for their postcard gardens ‘Escape Into Nature' from Merlin Woods Primary School, Doughiska has been created to look like a miniature forest walk Fourteen-year-old Fiona Bichard from Athenry has collaborated with the Burrenbeo Conservation Volunteers to create the Burren in Bloom postcard garden. The rockery garden, with a Dolmen style bench, is a celebration of the magical floral orchestra that makes the Burren world famous. Bridget Morley from Oughterard was awarded a Silver Medal for her A.O.I.F.A. Floral Art Competition ‘Patterns From Nature' Jane Stark from Moycullen received a Bronze Medal for her Botanical Art Competition submission ‘Sarracenia leucophylla White-Topped Pitcher Plant'. Meanwhile, a connemara-inpired coastal garden designed by Oliver and Liat Schurmann of Mount Venus Nursery in Dublin has scooped the the overall large garden award