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\"bughotel.jpg\"<\/a>I began attending Bloom Garden and Food Festival four years ago – initially\u00a0as a regular punter<\/a>, secondly as a volunteer<\/a>, last year as a speaker on the main stage<\/a> and finally this year as an exhibitor due to my involvement with the Community Garden Network postcard garden.<\/a><\/p>\n

Being on the other side has been a rollercoaster experience but already my mind is contemplating the logistics of entering a design and actually pulling it off in the designer garden area. The Postcard Garden experience has been a real teaser, so who knows – watch this space!<\/p>\n

In the meantime I took the opportunity to have a little look around at some of the show (too much to see in the limited time I had!) and here are my favourite bits. I was told off last year for not including enough pictures in my post so there’s a few more.<\/p>\n

As Dorothy from An Taisce surmised (I can’t remember her exact words but something like…)<\/p>\n

“Bloom this year has been such a welcome relief after an 11 month winter. It’s full of smiles, sun and warmth and boy didn’t we need it!!”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I began attending Bloom Garden and Food Festival four years ago – initially\u00a0as a regular punter, secondly as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1802],"tags":[663,1804],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nBloom 2013 - another perspective - Greenside Up<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Each year has been different at Bord Bia's Bloom Garden & Festival and 2013 was no exception.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/bloom-2013-2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bloom 2013 - 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