Kitty Scully outlines the many benefits of community and school gardens.

A ‘LIVING classroom’ garden developed at an organic farm and education project in Co Kerry won a major award at Bloom ’09, which ended at the Phoenix Park in Dublin last evening.

THE flowering beauty of Ireland has been fused with inspiring designs to create a summer wonderland of gardening colour and freshness at Bloom, the country’s answer to the Chelsea Flower Show.

Mountain, a leading fancy for the JCB Triumph Hurdle, makes his long-awaited hurdling bow at Sandown tomorrow.