Cork Bloom winner ‘knew instinctively’ how to create garden

His dairy-farm upbringing and months planning show-stopping garden in Phoenix Park paid off for Youghal landscape designer

Cork garden designer Sean Russell with his two-year-old son Robert. Picture: Robbie Reynolds

Having grown up on a dairy farm in Cork, Sean Russell said he “knew instinctively” just what to plant to recreate a traditional-style country garden to wow audiences at Bloom at this weekend.

Months spent planning and building his traditional-style farm garden to wow audiences in the middle of Phoenix Park in Dublin paid off for the Youghal landscape designer who took gold at Ireland’s largest garden festival.