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Super Garden is on the hunt for budding designers and gardens in need of a makeover for new series

Are you a budding garden designer? Or do you have a garden in need of a €5000 facelift? Super Garden on RTÉ One is gearing up for a ninth series and looking for you to take part.

Whether you’re a start-up landscaper, amateur gardener, horticulture student or recent graduate, Super Garden is your opportunity to showcase your green-fingered talent on prime-time television. The five designers chosen for the series will also be in with a chance to feature amongst the top designers in Ireland at Bloom 2017, where the winning garden will be exhibited for over 100,000 visitors to enjoy.

If you’re passionate about garden design and think you can create a Super Garden worthy of a spot at Bloom, apply today by logging on to rte.ie/supergarden or emailingsupergarden@vipmg.tv

The five designers selected for the show will be given similar size gardens to work with but each will have a very different brief. They will have five weeks and a budget of €5000 to design and build a Super Garden which meets the homeowner’s requirements and is worthy of a show garden spot at Bloom.

If you have a garden in need of transformation and don’t know where to start, why not apply for a €5,000 makeover and give your patch of grass the Super Garden treatment. Emailsupergarden@vipmg.tv for an application form.

Super Garden, in association with Woodie’s, Cuprinol and Bloom by Bord Bia, follows five emerging garden designers as they transform real gardens and compete for the prestigious honour of having their design recreated at Bloom by Bord Bia, Ireland’s premier garden festival.

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Date: Monday 13 February

For further information visit: www.rte.ie/supergarden or contact Sinéad at Vision Independent Productions on 01 864 1444 or email supergarden@vipmg.tv.

Notes to Editor:

Persons available for interview

• Gary Graham, Super Garden Judge & Director of the Bloom by Bord Bia.
• Leonie Cornelius, Super Garden Judge & Bloom Gold medallist.
• Alexandra Hollingsworth, 2016 Super Garden Winner & Bloom Silver medallist.

Bloom by Bord Bia

1^st – 5^th June 2017

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Bloom is Ireland’s largest gardening, horticulture, food and family festival.  Bloom 2017 will see the event celebrating its 11^th anniversary and attendance figures continue to grow with last year’s festival attracting almost 115,000 visitors.

Super Garden success at Bloom

Previous winners of Super Garden have gone on to win medals at Bloom and to build highly successful careers, including last year’s Super Garden winner, Alexandra Hollingsworth, who was awarded a Silver medal for her ‘Glasnevin to Granada’ garden.  2015 Super Garden winner Brian Burke is now a two-time Bloom medallist, having been awarded Silver Gilt for his Super Garden design in 2015, and Silver for his 2016 Damascus Courtyard – War and Peace garden for Goal.  2012 winner and now Super Garden judge, Leonie Cornelius is one of Ireland’s best-known garden writers and designers. She has gone on to win multiple gold and silver-gilt show garden medals, since her Gold Medal and Best in Show award for her Super Garden design at Bloom 2012.

Terms & conditions for Garden Designers Applications

• The competition is open to anyone in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, aged 18 or over.
• Entrants must complete an application form.
• Closing date for entries is 17th of February 2017. Entries after this deadline may be accepted but only at the discretion of the Series Producer.
• The winner will be announced and a schedule of assignments confirmed for Bloom by Bord Bia garden festival.
• The budget for the design is €5000 ex VAT. The Production Company, Vision Independent Productions will oversee all expenditure.
• Any decision made by Vision Independent Productions is final.  Terms & conditions for Garden Owner Applications
• This is a nationwide callout for gardens in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
• The cost of the garden design is covered by the production.  
• If engaged the garden–owner will be required to sign a ‘Location and Contribution Agreement’.  This grants production access and permission to film the process of the garden being ‘made over’.
• The nature of this programme involves the designers having full autonomy on the design and creation of the garden allocated to them. The designer will make changes, additions and alterations to the garden in accordance with their garden plan/design. No reinstatements will be made to the completed garden when the design has been completed.
• Not all gardens will be suitable. Any decision made by Vision Independent Productions is final.
• Closing date for applications is 20th of February. Due to the high volume of applications it may not be possible for a member of production to be in touch with every applicant.