That is one of the figures aid agency Goal hopes to convey at the organisation's garden at this weekend's Bloom festival.

Ireland’s wildest visitor attraction has landed a blooming fantastic new addition to its suite of educational resources.

Ray Ryan anticipates big interest in small gardens when the Bloom festival puts creative horticulture in the spotlight from this Thursday

Bloom has been abuzz over the last month preparing to mark its 10th year with the biggest festival yet in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

Some people feared that Bord Bia had taken on too daunting a challenge when it decided to organise a world-class garden show in Dublin.

Gary Graham had a dream. The reality is bigger than anyone could have imagined, writes Fiann Ó Núalláin.

Ireland’s artisan or speciality food sector is worth in excess of €615 million, with some 350 producers employing more than 3,000 people.

Ireland’s great festival of scents, colours, and flavours was officially opened by President Michael D Higgins yesterday.

THE Celtic Tiger has a lot to answer for.

The maker of a farmhouse cheese from Galway has been named the Supreme Champion of the only cheese awards to focus on Irish makers.

Lots of hardy annuals at Ireland’s biggest garden festival got a good watering yesterday.

Summer waited for Ireland’s biggest garden festival to unfurl yesterday.

Bord Bia is committed to developing an in-depth export strategy for the farmhouse and speciality cheese sector, building on sales soaring by 43% to €4m for the 12-month period ending Jul 2012.

Ireland’s biggest garden festival is a feast for the senses, President Michael D Higgins declared when he opened Bloom 2012 yesterday.

Top garden designers have started getting down and dirty for Ireland’s biggest garden festival.

Visitors enjoy last year’s Fota House and Gardens Fair. Note the extremely attractive seat for positioning around the trunk of your favourite tree!

CHEF JAMIE Oliver, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, concrete sewer pipes, and fresh horse manure — what binds them? Wood-fired pizza ovens.

NUMBERS at Bord Bia’s Bloom 2011 in Dublin are already showing a significant increase on previous years.

MORE THAN 70 medals were awarded to show gardens at Bord Bia’s Bloom 2011 in Dublin yesterday.

SOMEBODY once wrote that gardeners are women who love flowers or men who hate weeds.

THE inspiring designs of vibrant show gardens will highlight the value of the €717 million amenity horticultural industry to the national economy at Bloom 2010 in the Phoenix Park, Dublin over the June Bank Holiday weekend.

AN all-out effort is under way in Tralee to ensure the recession doesn’t dampen celebrations at the 50th annual rose festival in August.

“GROW Your Own” will be the central theme of Bloom ’09 which will be held in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, over the June Bank Holiday weekend.

RESEARCH published yesterday revealed that 93% of people agree that gardening is good for their health.

Ireland's answer to the Chelsea flower show opens its gates to the public at the Phoenix Park in Dublin today.

THE amenity garden products industry is now valued at almost €1 billion, having grown by 71% over the past four years.

IT may not inspire any Joycean sayings, but Bloom will be the talk of the country over the June Bank Holiday weekend.

Kevin Darley came in for the plum spare ride on Red Bloom at York today and kept the Cheveley Park Stud bandwagon rolling along with another victory.