Tag: public transport

**bloom in the park 2009 – to read my review – click here

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Show times and dates:

• thursday 28th May  11am – 6pm
• friday 29th May 10am – 6pm
• saturday 30th May 10am – 6pm
• sunday 31st May 10am – 6pm
• monday 1st June 10am – 6pm

Recommended to do and see:

• 27 show gardens
• don’t forget the engaging spaces gardens
• recreation of US First Lady Michelle Obama’s Whitehouse Kitchen Garden
• free childrens craft workshops with The Craft Council of Ireland
• Ladys Day – Saturday 30th May
• sit on the lawn and enjoy the live entertainment
• go see the floral pavillion
• a must is the conservation area at the back of the coffee shop
• loved the food market last year
• the playground is genius

How to get there:

• BY CAR: google maps directions and sat nav co ordinates – click here
• don’t bring the car unless you need to!!
• CYCLE: via National bike week & bloom ’09 -hire a bike! book early
• or bring your own bike
• GUIDE DOGS: are welcome – other than that no!
• TRAIN: a courtesy bus runs from & to Hueston station all day
• see here for further details

Do and Don’t:

• have a chat with the show garden people
• don’t bring the dog
• bring an umberella and wellingtons and sun cream
• bring Grandma & the kids
• bring a camera – don’t be afraid to take snaps
• buy a programme and use the map!!
• get there [very] early traffic last year was mental
• use public transport if possible
• say thank you if you had a great time!!
• if you’re going – let me know – we can have coffee
• let me know what you thought!

Good People for you to meet:

• In the food area – I looking forward to meeting Jane Russell of Jane Russell’s Original Handmade Irish Sausages – I had a great chat with her last week –  a brilliant lady with sausages I’m simply dying to taste. Go say hi and have a little taste 😆 [she is also on twitter @janerussells ]

• In the garden tent – Pat Fitzgerald is there. The brains behind the MyPlant range if you ever wanted to meet somone who breeds their own plants…. how do you invent a new plant….? Go ask Pat. He also helped out on this little matter with a few hundred plants and then with The Niall Mellon Garden when he was passing by…. lovely guy 😉  [Pat is on twitter as @patfitzgerald ]

• In the engaging spaces…. is the Niall Mellon garden… brilliant stuff. Genius people. Make you think… head on over and say hello.

• ****Remember Rebecca… you did a great job helping her 🙂 The plants from the garden are being sold off on the Monday and [cue drum roll] any money received will be donated to my trip to South Africa with… The Niall Mellon Township

related posts:

• show gardening – behind the scenes
• looking back on bloom 2008
• looking back on bloom 2007