Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Keelings Bloom 2009



Toasting success at the Keelings Bloom Festival were: Ruth Wassel, Alan Hughes, Maurice Wynne, Steve Ryan and Andrew Rudd.


Bloom 2009 flower show is over for yet another year and everyone agreed that this was the best year ever. Keelings, one of the premium sponsors of the festival, were awarded Silver Medal at the show in Phoenix Park for their Natural Fresh Fruit Garden.

The Keelings Naturally Fresh Fruit Garden was a journey through a magical and fruity garden where upon entering visitors walked under a transparent Blackberry Waterfall which flowed into a Blackberry pond with spouting Blackberry fountains. The Banana Walk lead you to an exotic grove where Pineapples and other magical fruits where hidden.

The Orange Grove brought you to an Orange Waterfall and Orange colour trees. The Strawberry Trail directed the senses to the Smoothie Makers where large vats of fruit where on view and ran through pipes into Smoothie Glasses.

The Fresh Fruit Garden, which was constructed along with Kilmurray Nurseries, amazed visitors throughout the weekend, and rightly so as over the past number of years Kilmurry Nurseries have won 11 RHS medals, Gold at the Chelsea Flower Show and two Gold medals in Bloom for their displays.

Mad Flowers, another part of the Keelings Group, won Gold Medal at Bloom 2009 for the 3rd year running. Mad created an amazing wedding display by their very own award-winning florist, Maurice Wynne.