FORD "ALLERGY-FRIENDLY" GARDEN
TAKES BRONZE AT BLOOM GARDEN FESTIVAL
Cork, 30 May, 2008 - A specially designed "Ford Allergy-Friendly Show Garden", which is the stage for the debut of the new Ford Kuga in Ireland, has taken bronze at the Bloom 08 garden festival, which is taking place in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, over the June Bank Holiday weekend.
The garden, which highlights the usage of allergy friendly plants to ensure a garden environment suitable for asthma / hay fever sufferers and allergy-prone families, was conceived and created by Meadow Garden Designers, based in Dublin. It uses the OPALS (Ogren Plant Allergy Scale) system to deliver the allergy-friendly scheme while providing colour and shape through mounded and curvaceous threads of planting. Meadow founder Ciaran Kirwan won a Show-garden Bronze Medal at the RHS Tatton Park Garden Show in 2006.
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The Ford Kuga compact SUV and broader car range have received official allergy-friendly accreditation from across Europe. The accreditation has been provided by the German standards authority TUV and the British Allergy Foundation following a series of rigorous tests, assuring that all interiors of the Ford cars minimise the allergy risk to the lowest possible level. Over 400,000 people in Ireland suffer from asthma. Ford Ireland is a corporate partner of the Asthma Society of Ireland.
"The decision of the Bloom international judging panel is a validation of the concept of devising a garden to suit a particular social need, matched with a car with the same objective," commented Eddie Murphy, Chairman and Managing Director, Ford Ireland. "We are delighted with this recognition for the Ford Allergy-Friendly Show Garden". |
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