This morning/afternoon.
Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Slebs and media personalities preview Bloom – Ireland’s biggest gardening event – ahead of opening to the public this weekend. From top: Marty Morrissey, unidentified dad, and Ireland’s Eurovision entrant Brooke Scullion.
Location unspecified.
Colum Cronin tweets:
“After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction.” Dan Simmons, Drood
Not paintings, but the dreamy, otherworldly flower photography of Sunnyvale, California-based Xuebing Du – surreally lit at full bloom but only by the natural light of the sun.
This afternoon.
Phoenix Park, Dublin
Finishing touches at the press preview of the show gardens at Bloom which starts tomorrow (until Monday) at 9am.
Too early for an Xmas cocktail?
Dave Quinn (not him, another one), of The People of Croke Park fame, writes:
For my day job I work in advertising with the creative agency Bloom. This year to celebrate the festive season we decided to commission our own cocktail.
We call it Yule Bloom (Geddit). Anyway we would like to share it with the readers of Broadsheet. In case they were looking for a break from all that Prosecco and sherry.
And wanted something different.
Hic.
A vivid blue coloration in the waves off the San Diego coast this month caused by bioluminescent planktonic dinoflagellates.
An all too short ‘visual poem’ to the glory of the bursting bloom by Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir.
Go fullscreen for the full effect.
Stop that.
Stephanie McArdle tweetz:
Busy bee collecting pollen in the @EnableIreland show garden @ Bloom last month
Taken at the Bloom Festival in Phoenix park at the weekend by John Gallen who asks:
Name those flowers. I haven’t a clue.
Anyone?
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