Series 15 Episode 2
Super Garden, the garden design challenge, is back for its 15th series on RTÉ One.
For the winning designer it’s a launch pad to the premier league of garden design and a chance to show what they can do when their Super Garden is recreated at Bord Bia Bloom and over a hundred thousand visitors will experience their garden.
For the competition each designer is given three weeks and a budget of €15,000 to design and create their gardens. They are each given a similar sized garden to create their designs.
The location for this year’s Super Garden is Connaught Grove, Athboy, Co Meath, a recent development by Meath County Council for social housing. Here five households will have their gardens transformed by our designers. The three Super Garden judges will have their work cut out for them to pick a winner.
There is a new judge this year Kerrie Gardiner who is the show garden and horticulture content manager for Bord Bia Bloom and a Landscape Architect. Monica Alvarez and Brian Burke return with Monica representing Dulux exteriors and Brian representing Woodies.
Episode 2
In episode two, Dijana Kalic originally from Croatia, designs a garden for Michael and his two sons Joshua and Daniel. Michael lost his wife Breda 5 years ago; he would like to have a space that he can remember her in the garden as well as it being a space for entertaining family and friends. His son Daniel is a fan of Japanese style and would like to see elements of that incorporated in the garden.
Dijana worked with one of the fintech giants for over 6 years as a global change architect, before quitting her role to pursue her dream of setting up an interior design business, which she is in the middle of launching. Dijana is a qualified interior designer, so it was a decision that she was happy to make. She would like to offer garden design as part of her new business. It became an ambition for Dijana to apply for Super Garden when she visited Bloom and saw the gardens there. She says taking on Super Garden will take her out of her comfort zone and she is ready for the challenge.
Super Garden is proudly sponsored by Woodie’s.
