The streets of Ennis may be alive with the sound of music this week but they’re blossoming with colour too.
Thousands of flowers, which have been grown in the county’s hidden garden on the outskirts of Ennis, have been arranged in hundreds of hanging baskets, planters and planted areas to brighten up the town for Fleadh.
Well if you’ve been out and about on the streets of Ennis over the past numbers of weeks you may have noticed the array of colours laid out ahead of the festivities.
250 hanging baskets, 80 planters and 65 planted areas are being tended to by five Clare County Council workers – But where do all the flowers come from?
Hidden on the outskirts of Ennis is the county’s garden, where thousands of flowers for the Fleadh, Council events and flower beds across the county are grown and arranged into the beautiful displays we see when we’re out and about.
This year the project hit a stumbling block on the road to Fleadh, after an unwanted visitor moved in one one of the hanging baskets.
Brendan Keogh, Clare County Gardener says it took some time before the “stubborn duck” moved on.
Even after months of preperation for the world’s largest traditional music festival, the Fleadh flowers project isn’t the biggest one ever taken on by the Gardening Section.
Brendan says efforts are made to ensure towns and villages across the county are blooming all year round.
You can hear the full interview with Brendan here
