Super Garden

Super Garden returns for a brand new series in which five amateur garden designers compete to showcase their garden at this year's 2011 Bloom Festival.

The series once again features top Irish garden designer Mary Reynolds (Ireland's only Gold Medal winner at Chelsea). Mary will be on hand to offer our amateurs advice and guidance as they plot their designs.

We follow each designer from their initial concept and design, through the reality of the construction process to the completion of their Super Garden. With just weeks to design and build a show garden, and a budget of just €6,000, it proves to be quite a challenge for these amateur designers.

After only five short weeks work stops in the garden, and the Super Garden judging panel arrives. This year's panel comprises Gary Graham (Project Manager of Bloom), Paddy Gleeson (Horticultural Consultant with Woodies DIY) and Tim Austen (Professional Garden Designer, former Bloom Gold Medal winner). Each garden will be marked on Originality, Impact, Planting and Quality of Finish.

The winner of Super Garden will be announced on the sixth and final episode of the series, when all the designers and judges meet in the more convivial atmosphere of Powerscourt House & Gardens. The prize will be awarded to the amateur designer voted Super Garden designer 2011, and with it the life-changing opportunity to re-create their design at the prestigious Bloom 2011 and take their first step into the world of professional garden design.

Each garden designer is working on a real garden - they are given a specific brief and budget and must design a garden to the home owners' specifications. All give have been given similar size gardens to work with, but each with a very different brief.