Series 15 Episode 3
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 3
In episode 3, John Dooley, from Kildare, designs a garden for Daija and her daughters, Amanda and Amelia. Daija is originally from Latvia and has been in Ireland for over 20 years. Daija has scoliosis and she is delighted to have someone to design the garden, as she started to do it but was unable to complete it. The family would like a space to entertain and something that is low maintenance and easy for Daija to look after.
John, a former farm manager with a lifelong passion for gardening. From growing small cabbage patches when he was young to when he got married and built his own glasshouse, John enjoys growing his own salad and vegetables and caring for the orchard with various crops of apples and fruit bushes. He loves propagation, growing flowers from seed and trying new things. John says that gardening is therapy for him, he loves to do gardens for people in his area and takes care of the church grounds in his local area. John has always wanted to apply for Super Garden, but he has never had the courage to apply. This year his wife Elizabeth applied on his behalf without his knowledge and he is glad that she did.
Super Garden is proudly sponsored by Woodie’s.
