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14 Apr 2026

WATCH: Laois Super Gardener 'over the moon' at Bloom Garden Festival

Debbie Brophy from Ballacolla was crowned RTÉ's Super Garden winner and won a silver medal at Bord Bia Bloom

Laois garden designer Debbie Brophy has won another award at Bloom, in addition to being crowned the winner of the RTÉ show, Super Garden 2025.

Ballacolla native, Debbie Brophy was crowned the winner of Super Garden 2025 in the run up to the Bord Bia Bloom Garden Festival in Dublin.

The garden design challenge, now in its 16th series, showcased the extraordinary talents of aspiring designers from across the country. Debbie, originally from Laois but now based in Kildare, impressed the judges with her ‘bee happy’ wildlife garden, inspired by a honeybee colony that moved into her own garden last year.  MORE BELOW PICTURE.

Pictured: Debbie Brophy at Bloom with Super Garden judges.

The final episode of this season of Super Garden aired this evening on Tuesday 27 May 2025 on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player and Debbie was announced as the winner.

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Part of the reward for winning was a chance to exhibit her garden at Bord Bia Bloom, Ireland’s premier garden festival this June bank holiday weekend in the Phoenix Park.

At the show, she was announced as a silver medal winner and was busy chatting to many visitors to her garden to chat about her experience and her garden to the Leinster Express / Laois Live

 

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