I am delighted to announce that the European Commission’s ‘In Perspective’ garden was awarded a gold medal at the Bord Bia Bloom Festival in Dublin’s Phoenix Park this morning. The garden also won best in category awards for ‘best concept garden’ and for ‘best planting’. If you're one of the 100,000 visitors to Bloom over the weekend, I would invite you to drop in and experience our rather unique garden which was inspired by the ideals of the European Green Deal. It is the first time that the European Commission has sponsored a garden at Bloom and we are delighted with the feedback it is receiving from visitors. In other good news this week, Irish projects have won Natura 2000 and European Heritage awards (more on all of these stories below).