Airing Thursday 21 May at 7pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player
In Episode 5, designer Adrian Bolton creates a wheelchair-accessible garden with raised beds, with the goal of being selected to showcase his garden at Bord Bia Bloom this summer. Adrian, who is originally from Lancashire in England and has been living in Ireland for over 20 years, has a background in renewable energy engineering, which he puts to good use in this design.
When Adrian applied to take part in Super Garden he had just been made redundant. He saw the programme as an opportunity to try something he always had an interest in and could now commit to. Since then, Adrian has a new job and a reignited passion for garden design.
About Super Garden
Five designers take on a challenge that requires great creativity and a huge amount of physical effort to build a garden worthy of going to Bord Bia Bloom, Ireland’s premier garden show.
With just three weeks and a budget that amounts to €15,000, each designer takes over one garden in a new social housing estate – their blank canvas – to make something that will impress the judges. Millrace in Ashbourne County Meath, a new social housing development by Meath County Council, is the location for this series. Five families, who had just moved into their new homes, had their gardens transformed for the competition.
The Super Garden judges are Brian Burke, representing Woodie’s, who is a previous Super Garden winner; Kerrie Gardiner Bord Bia Bloom’s Show Gardens Manager; Carol Marks, Manager of Horticulture Bord Bia; and Monica Alvarez, a garden design lecturer also representing Dulux.
The winning garden is recreated at Ireland’s premier garden and food event, Bord Bia Bloom. Over 100,000 people will get to experience the Super Garden and this provides a great launch pad for the winning designer.
Super Garden is sponsored by Woodie’s and Dulux.
