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- Garden Inauguration: Jardin Historial Péronne, France
- Speaking: Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland, RHSI Garden Show 2019
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Bettyville
Ballyboughal
Co, Dublin A41 P978 Ireland
+353(87)6594688
hello@doneganlandscaping.com
Horticulture Week Magazine: Peter Donegan Designs Perennial RHS Garden
/in All Posts, Media /by Peter DoneganHort Week Magazine’s Matt Appleby was the first to break with the news of the Peter Donegan designed Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show Cardiff Garden for Perennial.
Read More: Hort Week Magazine – Peter Donegan to create garden for Perennial at RHS Flower Show Cardiff in anniversary year.
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Bookings: Garden Talks, Speaking and Demonstrations 2019
/in All Posts, Garden Courses, Classes, Events /by Peter DoneganBookings Now Being Taken for 2019/ 2020
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Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden. Péronne, France
/in All Posts, Donegan Gardens, Landscaping Dublin /by Peter DoneganIn 2018, Peter Donegan was selected by a French Jury to represent Ireland to design and realise a garden in the moat of the 13th century Chateau de Peronne, known as The Historial de la Grande Guerre, in the Somme region of Northern France.
A series of Peace Gardens (Jardin de la Paix) in very historic locations there were to be created to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War 1. The gardens were to be designed and realised by 14 internationally selected garden designers.
The Irish WW1 Peace Garden of the Historial Péronne visited by President Emmanuel Macron Friday 9th November 2018 is now complete. An official Irish inauguration of the garden is set to follow in 2019.
The following post is the story behind and about the garden. Before the build of the Irish garden began is better told in this article by Anthea McTiernan of The Irish Times. Read more
BBC Radio Ulster: Gardeners Corner Special
/in All Posts, Media /by Peter DoneganBBC Radio Ulster, Gardeners Corner.
Saturday 10 November, 9am
listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00012ff
David Maxwell presents a special edition of Gardeners’ Corner from the Somme where 15 Gardens of Peace (Jardin de la Paix) are being constructed near sites of the Great War. Read more
France TV: Peter Donegan, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Garden Designer
/in All Posts, Media /by Peter DoneganThe recording (below) for France Tv station Weo with Adelaide Bollart, was just as I began phase 2, of the completion of the Irish WW1 Peace Garden at Chateau de Péronne, Historial de la Grande Guerre, France.
Though an official inauguration is to be announced, the Irish Jarden de la Paix garden has was opened Tuesday 8th November 2018, in time for the Armistice Centenary.
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