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Ballyboughal
Co, Dublin A41 P978 Ireland
+353(87)6594688
hello@doneganlandscaping.com
Horticulture Week: France Peace Gardens
/in All Posts, Media /by Peter DoneganOctober 2018, Matthew Appleby of Hortweek, a publication I’ve been reading in print since I was in horticulture college, published this little overview of the Gardens of Peace being internationally designed and realised in the Hauts de France, Somme region of Northern France to mark the centenary of the end of the first World War.
You can read the original article or subscribe to Horticulture Week at Hortweek.com Read more
The RHS, Garden Magazine – Jardin de la Paix, France
/in All Posts, Media /by Peter DoneganOctober 2018, the latest edition of The RHS, Royal Horticultural Society’s The Garden Magazine featured a lovely mention of the garden designers of The British Isles selected to represent, design and realise garden in the Somme Region of Northern France to mark the centenary of the end of WW1. Read more
Research: Garden of Peace Péronne, Somme, France
/in All Posts, Donegan Gardens, Landscaping Dublin /by Peter DoneganI’m due to speak at The Landscape Show, London September 2018 alongside Andrew Fisher Tomlin about the realisation of the Jardin de la Paix – a series of Peace Gardens in Northern France to commemorate the end of World War 1.
The following is a little more on my being selected to represent Ireland, the realising of the garden in the moat of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Chateau de Péronne), a little behind the scenes and so I and you post my talk in Battersea Park better understand the behind the scenes of the gardens final design.
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France 3, TV: Jardin de la Paix, Irlandais, Historial de la Grande Guerre
/in All Posts, Media /by Peter DoneganTo quote France 3 TV News,
Honor, again and again, but otherwise. A little everywhere in the Hauts-de-France and by next autumn, “Gardens of peace” will see the day. Created in places of conflict, they will embody renewal, peace after the war, and life turned towards the future.
A poetic way to remember our ancestors and what we do not want to see anymore……
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Irish Times: Irish Garden Designer, Peter Donegan, France
/in All Posts, Media /by Peter DoneganThis by Anthea McTiernan appeared in The Irish Times Sunday 5th August 2018.
The Irish landscaper building a war memorial garden in France.
Garden at the Château de Péronne will mark the Irish contribution in WW1.
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