Biography

Marion Keogh is a Dublin based garden designer working since 2009. She has been a Mentor on RTE TV’s SuperGarden and mentored a group of TY students at Bloom in 2019.

She is one of the founders and originators of the nature-based artists collaborative, Green Edge (formerly BloomFringe) which slammed onto Dublin City’s streets in 2014 “making the gritty city pretty”. Marion recognises the value of enhancing the physical space but is also passionate about engaging people in planting and growing and making links with each other, with the environment and with
the wider community, to transform forgotten outside spaces into more green and more beautiful places.

Her previous career in contemporary art galleries and a BA in History of Art have formed the aesthetic basis of her garden design practice. She works predominantly on residential projects. Her mission is to improve your liveability by reconnecting you with nature through your new and revitalised garden. Her garden plans concentrate on the structural aspects like paving, boundaries, beds and borders, before adding in the planting schemes. Plants are Marion’s passion though and her knowledge is extensive.

She likes to concentrate on winter interest so that clients get year-long interest from the plants in their gardens. Marion delivers a full design and build package for large and small gardens, inner courtyards and apartment balconies, and has worked on commercial projects such as a yoga studio and a restaurant terrace.

Design Qualifications

Garden Design, College of Further Education Dundrum 
BA in Art History, UCD

Awards

Marion won medals in Bloom for 4 Show Gardens from 2009 to 2014.