Follow the yellow brick road to discover Bloom

Bank holiday weekends generally don’t inspire the feeling that there really is “no place like home” — unless you’re headed for the Bloom festival in Phoenix Park where homage to The Wizard of Oz may take centre stage.

Inspired by the Frank L Baum book of the same name, synthetic grass specialist Mark O’Loughlin has created an Oz- themed garden where spectators are invited to follow the yellow brick road from a black and white Kansas prairie to somewhere over the rainbow.

Retracing Dorothy’s footsteps past Munchkinland, via the Cornfield Crossroads, through a dark forest and drowsy poppy fields and on to the Emerald City, those who take part can expect to meet some familiar faces along the way, seeking courage, a heart, and a brain.