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Sponsor Opportunity - Reigning Cats & Dogs @ Bloom 2012
- 22 March 2012
Inspiring Gardens have created award-winning gardens for Bord Bia, Failte Ireland, RTE’s The Late Late Show, GIY Ireland, UNICEF, The British Wildlife Trust, The Asthma Society of Ireland, BBC’s Gardener’s World, RHS Hampton Court and RHS Tatton Park.
Reigning Cats & Dogs will be a small sized garden designed by Miah Ní Nualláin (10 years old). Her pets are her friends and the garden has been imagined as if designed by her pets; their ideal garden at Bloom.
This garden will demonstrate the understanding of the loving relationship a child has with their pet and will demonstrate to the 90,000 plus visitors to Bloom how to make a pet friendly garden. Miah’s garden is designed with plants, trees and flowers that have a direct link to cats and dogs, dogwoods and catnip for fun but also lants that are pet friendly, both safe to have with pets (non toxic) and durable to the interaction of animals.
Miah Ní Nualláin is a huge supporter of animal rights and believes that pets are extremely important in a child’s life. She is a fluent Irish speaker, plays violin, piano and tin whistle, loves to walk her two dogs Cody and Misty and play chasing with her cat Croi. Since the first Bloom 2007 she has helped her uncle Fiann with his gardens, be it watering the plants, weeding or raking the grass, Miah’s love for gardening and pets are now combined into one amazing project. This time Miah has designed her very own garden for Bloom in the Park 2012. This garden will incorporate a storyline; a day in the life of a cat and dog, who daydream their ideal garden. From a pawRprint pavement, to a fishbone entrance gate, to a dog bone seat and a cat chalet all surrounded by pet friendly plants and trees, this magical world of a little girl and her pets is transformed into reality.
Fiann Ó Nualláin is an awardRwinning Garden Designer that has been pioneering horticultural therapy since the early 1990s. Fiann has designed gardens for The Asthma Society of Ireland, UNICEF, Failte Ireland, Bord Bia, The British Wildlife Trust and GIY Ireland, winning 10 horticultural awards in the last 5 years for his work. He has lectured on the topics of holistic gardening, ecological gardening and biodiversity for a number of years, including talks at Bloom. His work has appeared on BBC Gardener’s World, RTE Nationwide, The Late Late Show, TV3 Ireland AM & also RHS Hampton Court and RHS Tatton Park. Fiann has written content for several websites and editorials pertaining to gardening for health including Bord Bia’s ‘GardeningTime’. He is currently a staff writer for ‘Self Build’ magazine with a brief to bring environmental gardening to their readership. He has also published a series of booklets on the benefits of houseplants as air purifying agents to combat fatigue, asthma and insomnia. Fiann is a member of the International Federation of Parks and Recreational Spaces, the International Society of Horticultural Science and the American Association of Horticultural Therapy. Currently co-presenting with Dermot O’Neill for RTE’s new garden show.
