This June bank holiday weekend (June 1st–5th), Ireland’s favourite festival of flowers, food, and entertainment returns to the Phoenix Park in Dublin with another vibrant blend of thought-provoking display gardens, delicious local cuisine, and interactive entertainment for visitors of all ages.
The flower festival, Bord Bia Bloom, is expected to welcome more than 100,000 visitors between June 1 and June 5. The main themes that will be explored are improving air quality, tackling food waste, and highlighting how children benefit from outdoor play in the natural world.
Here’s what to expect from the 17th edition of this showcase for Irish horticulture, food and drink – and we also have exciting Bloom competition with the chance to win tickets to the event and a €100 Currys voucher.
Glorious Gardens
At the centrepiece of Bord Bia Bloom, a total of 22 small, medium, and large show gardens and feature gardens will provide a colourful demonstration of the latest trends and innovations in garden design. One of the stand-out themes for 2023 is that many of the gardens focus on spaces for children and young people.
The impact of climate change and making better use of the outdoors also feature as recurring themes in the 2023 show gardens including “A Breathing Space for Fingal” by Fingal County Council. Many of this year’s gardens also feature reclaimed and upcycled materials and will be relocating after the festival as permanent gardens elsewhere.
The ever popular “Postcard Gardens,” which feature nine little but wonderfully shaped pop-up gardens created and constructed by community organisations, educational institutions, and training organisations from all across Ireland, will provide gardening enthusiasts with plenty of inspiration in addition to a stunning display of show gardens. There will also be a botanical art exhibition, lively Nursery Village with some of Ireland’s top nurseries, five days of gardening presentations, and flower displays from the country’s best floral designers.
Inspire, Educate and Entertain
This year’s festival will be a truly immersive experience, designed to inspire, educate and entertain visitors in equal measure.
The festival will introduce number of new and exciting features for 2023 including a redesign of the popular Food Village, the introduction of the Funky Food Fleet which will bring a collection of Ireland’s tastiest food trucks to the festival for the first time, and Grafton Street’s best buskers will join us to entertain the crowds.
There will be live cookery demonstrations with some of Ireland’s leading chefs, live family entertainment, and sustainability workshops.
Tickets
Tickets are on sale from Ticketmaster priced from €25 per person and two children under 16 can attend for free with every adult ticket purchased.