Bloom 2019 tells the story of Irish horticulture, food, and drink through gardening

The impact on Ireland’s food of key societal and historical changes, over the past 8,000 years, will be illustrated by one of the show gardens at the five-day Bloom festival, which begins at the Phoenix Park in Dublin today.

The exhibit was created by University College Dublin landscape architecture students John McCord, Ciaran Rooney, Hannah Johnston and Niamh Conlan, along with two assistant professors, Dr Caroline Eliott-Kingston (Horticulture and Crop Physiology) and Dr Meriel McClatchie (Archaeology).