Super Garden sprang onto our screens tonight, introducing viewers to a new batch of budding gardeners. Watch it back on RTÉ Player now.
Click through the photo gallery above to see the results of this week's garden.
Each year, five nature lovers take on the challenge of designing a stunning home garden worthy of going to Bord Bia Bloom, Ireland's premier garden show.
With just three weeks and a budget that amounts to €15,000, each designer takes over one garden in a new social housing estate – their blank canvas – to make something that will impress the judges.
This year's location is Millrace in Ashbourne, County Meath, a new social housing development by Meath County Council. Five families, who had just moved into their new homes, had the privilege of seeing their gardens transformed for the competition.
This year's expert panel of judges are: Brian Burke, representing Woodie's, who is a previous Super Garden winner; Kerrie Gardiner Bord Bia Bloom's Show Gardens Manager; Carol Marks, Manager of Horticulture Bord Bia; and Monica Alvarez, a garden design lecturer also representing Dulux.
The first episode of the series introduced viewers to up-and-coming gardener Eoighan Mountaine Barry, from Lucan, Co Dublin.
Gardening and the outdoors are in his blood - his parents actually met while working in a garden centre! His father runs his own landscape business, so summer holidays and mid-term breaks always involved helping his dad from a young age.
Walking into his assigned garden, Eoighan described the plot as a "blank canvas", which he hoped to transform into a social haven for single dad, Anthony, and his daughter, Alicia.
A student of Trinity College, Alicia says she would love to have a garden that was suitable for hanging out with friends, while Anthony wanted a dedicated spot for the BBQ.
With this in mind, as well as Anthony's preference for shades of orange and blue, Eoighan set to work on creating an 'all-seasons garden', featuring a pergola with comfortable seating and colourful glass blocks, as well as some tidy seating by the BBQ.
When the judges came to view his work, they praised his colour combinations but were concerned that the design didn't feature enough "height".
Watch the episode back on RTÉ Player now.
Plants, Bricks and Paint List
- Fragaria vesca - Alpine Strawberry
- Hydrangea paniculate Bobo
- Acer conspicuum 'Red Flamingo'
- Selection of herbs and Alpine Strawberry
- HELLEBORUS 'Winter Moonbeam'
- Taxus bacatta
- Silene flos-cuculi 'Petite Jenny - Lychnis
- Heuchera palace purple
- Delphinium Highlander Bolero Larkspur
- Stokesia Mega Mels - Aster
- Sedum Autumn Joy
- Verbena bonariensis
- Petroselinum Crispum - Parsley
- Mentha - Mint
- Thymus - Thyme
- Arbutus unedo - Strawberry Tree
- Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster - Feather Reed Grass
- Ocimum basilicum - Basil
- Pinus mugo Mughus - Mountain Pine
- Foeniculum Vulgare - Fennel
- Campanula
- Kniphofia - Red hot poker
- Echinacea 'Tomato Soup - Coneflower
- Thymus vulgaris - Common Thyme
- Stipa tenuissima - Ponytail grass
- Allium Schoenoprasum - Chives
- Astrantia major 'Star of Billion'
- Trachelospermum jasminoides - Star Jasmine
- Selection of salads and vegetables
- Carrots
- Cynara cardunculus - Artichoke thistle
- Olea europaea - Olive Tree
- Thymus vulgaris - Common Thyme
- Laurus nobilis - Bay Laurel
- Helichrysum italicum - Curry Plant
- Knautia macedonica Melton Pastels Pincushion Flower
- Crocosmia - Disco Dancer
- Salvia officinalis 'Aurea' - Golden Sage
- Pittosporum tenui - Tom Thumb
- Digitalis Spice Island - Perennial Foxglove
- Salvia officinalis Tricolor - Sage
- Rudbeckia fulgida Goldsturm - Cone Flower
- Digitalis Spice Island - Perennial Foxglove
- Hosta 'Patriot'
- Thymus serpyllum - Creeping Thyme
- Salvia rosmarinus - Rosemary
- Achillea millefolium Pomegranate, Tutti Fruiti - Yarrow
- Dryopteris erythrosora - Autumn Fern
- Hosta - Tears in Heaven
Eoighan's Bricks & Paint.
Hard Landscaping
- Kilsaran Connemara Walling Raven White 3 Size Mix 75mm
- Kilsaran Connemara Walling Capping Raven White 600 x 200mm
- KilsaranInishBlock Rustic Rumbled 200 x 50mm
- Kilsaran Massimo Flag Sorrento 800 x 400mm
- Belmont 10mm
- KPRO Crete Post 10
- KPRO Crete 3:1 General Purpose Sand & Cement
Paint: Cuprinol Colour Card.
- Urban Slate.
- Honey Mango.
- Green Orchid.
- Cornflower.
- Beach Blue
