Peter Dowdall: We always remember the best gardens for how they made us feel

The gold medal-winning design by Oliver and Liat Schurmann felt less like a showpiece and more like a woodland, writes Peter Dowdall 
Yonah (7), grandchild of Liat and Oliver Schurmann, looking at the double-gold-medal-winning Shared Roots, Common Shade garden.

Yonah (7), grandchild of Liat and Oliver Schurmann, looking at the double-gold-medal-winning Shared Roots, Common Shade garden.

Of all the gardens at Bloom this year, one in particular stayed with me long after I had left the Phoenix Park.

Not because it was the most colourful, nor because it featured the rarest plants, or because it was packed with clever design tricks or eye-catching features.

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