'Super Garden' season 17 finale
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What is the premise of the Super Garden season 17 finale?
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Supergarden is one of Ireland's favourite television programmes and once again viewers have enjoyed seeing five talented designers transforming ordinary gardens in just a few weeks. And the winning design will be revealed this week. I'm joined now by two of the judges on the programme, former Supergarden winner Brian Burke. And on the telephone, Board Beer Blooms shows garden manager Kerry Gardner. Kerry, good morning to you. Good morning, Cass. And now let's talk about the five gardens. What are we going to see that's different this year in selecting the winner? A tough task, I believe.
Oh, yeah. I mean, the standard, Pat, is escalating year on year. I mean, this year the standard was very, very high. We have, as always with Supergarden, you get five diverse characters, five slightly different briefs because you have different homeowners, you have different requirements, you have different needs of each household. And I mean, the challenge as ever with Supergarden 17th year is the extent to which it challenges people. I mean, you have to be creative initially in the first place to come up with a design that suits the homeowner. You have to manage your human resources.
Who are the judges and what is their background?
You have to manage your schedule. You have to manage your program. You have to do all of this in the glare of the TV cameras. So it's a huge challenge. It tests the skill set of people in so many different levels. And that's why I think it's an enduring programme.
Now, people have been following this week on week. The final announcement happens on Thursday on RT1 at 7. But what kind of gardens, for those who weren't watching and who will watch the final announcement, what have we seen this year?
Well, what we've seen is it's a new development in Ashburn County, Meath. So it would be fairly typical of what we're seeing in newer developments up and down the country. we have a fairly typical, what we'd call suburban garden, you know, that type of space. There's slight differences in the configuration and the footprint of the gardens, but generally speaking, they're all around the same size and same proportion. So it's a challenge in a small garden to... to design and to execute to a high level. Because with a smaller space, there's really nowhere to hide. There's nowhere really for, you know, everything has to be finessed and refined to a high level. In larger spaces, it can be easier to get away with lack of execution.
Now, they all have their titles. There's one called Garden for the Seasons.
What challenges do designers face in this year's competition?
Garden for the Seasons. Full of vegetables and herbs and things like that.
Yeah, this would be, that would be the one in the, that would be Janani's garden, I think.
That would be in. No, that's Owen's garden. And there's one called an Irish landscape garden. That's Janani. Oh, yeah, that's Janani.
Rajkumar from Brigham. Yeah, that's Janani. So Janani had a very difficult site and she had a very dominant, domineering concrete wall that was overlooking the garden. So it was quite difficult for her to come up with a solution that suited that space. And what she did was she conjured up swatches of native Irish landscape and executed it really well. Again, it's a really great example of light touch, kind of low impact gardening, which is where gardening is heading generally.
Now, Kerry, there was a former Met police detective living in Dublin, Emily Moorcroft. What did she do?
Emily had kind of created a garden that was very accessible and it was very clever use of planting and surface materials. But it was a masterclass in planting, really. But also she used AI for the irrigation to work out when the soil needed to be irrigated. So it monitored soil moisture levels. So then that was a very smart garden, I think, both in its technology, but also in its execution. So it was a, yeah, again, it was a masterclass in... gardening.
She had to have soil sensors to detect moisture levels and then... That's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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