Location: Mercy College Secondary School Garden, Sligo Ireland
Landscape Architects: Peter Donegan Garden Design
Steelworks: OMC Technologies
Paving: Roadstone Ltd
Hardscaping: Keith McCarrick
Realised by: Mercy College Sligo family, friends and businesses.
The build schedule for this was a little different to most
– Landscape design presentation: September 2022
– Build Start: April 2023
– Build Completion: May 2025
The reason for the timeline unlike any other realisation, for say a commercial or domestic garden being that students have classes and examinations and there was also the addition that whilst it was designed that larger elements were constructed off site and installed, funding and donations – it is a public school after all – coincided with the elements installed and completed in sections, finishing with the lower planting.
Above, the designs, for the school courtyard garden, first presented September 2022.
Of course there is one element amiss – the Juicy Salif orange squeezer weather station which will follow with time – for now, final and intermediate secondary school exams and the students of course take precedence and the garden previously an non accessible uninspiring marsh now, a place of calms, nature and relaxation as was intended by Ann Gorby and her very amazing team.
