Garden festival plays host to exotic designs

INSPIRED equally by the West of Ireland and Indonesia, the public will get its first glimpse of an oriental-inspired garden today. East will meet west when the four-day 2003 Mallow Homes and Garden Festival opens at the town’s Cork Racecourse.

The garden, designed and built by the festival’s artistic director, Dominick Cullinane, goes on display for the first time.

It has been inspired by beauty of the west of Ireland and that of Indonesia and has been submitted as one of Ireland’s entries for next year’s Chelsea Flower Show.