By Diarmuid Sherry
Cluain Lir Community Nursing Unit, Mullingar are applying the the final touches to their garden it entered in Ireland’s premier gardening show, Bord Bia Bloom in Dublin. The Mullingar-based nursing home has entered the Postcard Garden category at the Phoenix Park event, which runs from Thursday, 30 May until Monday, 3 June.
Project coordinator and keen gardener, Carol Hayden said: “It is a huge honour to be accepted into this wonderful event. We’re embracing it and looking forward to bringing the Resident’s garden from a small corner of Mullingar to a prestigious national stage. It is very exciting.”