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The Landscape Zone - GroundsFest 2023 Speaker: Pet

The Landscape Zone - GroundsFest 2023
Speaker: Peter Donegan MSGD
Location: The Design Theatre at NAEC Stoneleigh.
Date: 21st Sept 2023 - Time: 11am - 11.45am
- @the_landscapezone | @groundsfest

Title: 'Making it to Melbourne'
- @melbflowershow 2023 specifically and the Gold medal winning Central Boulevard 200 sq metre large show garden. Garden designer Peter Donegan MSGD, Constructed by @semkenlandscaping
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@bamstone_bluestone | @cedstonegroup | @gardens_at_night | @warnersnurseries

**[Event Update]** via @roadstoneltd: Thank you a

**[Event Update]** via @roadstoneltd: Thank you all for your overwhelming response! Garden Design consultation day with Peter Donegan at Roadstone Retail Outlet Classis, Cork **fully booked** Sat 13th May.
Next Garden Design Day:
Schedule a complimentary garden design consultation Sat May 20th, at our Paving, Walling and Roof Tile store in Belgard, Dublin. Bring your ideas, plans, or dreams and receive guidance from DIY SOS's renowned garden designer. To reserve call 01 404 1275.

Legendary TV Host Trevor Cochrane of Australia’s

Legendary TV Host Trevor Cochrane of Australia’s most popular @thegardengurus Garden Gurus TV show interviews Peter Donegan at Melbourne International Flower Garden Show 2023 @melbflowershow. The Bamstone Garden was constructed by the amazingly talented @semkenlandscaping and designed by Peter Donegan.

This is Helen. I designed her first garden when I

This is Helen. I designed her first garden when I was 18 & still in horticulture college, she has every newspaper clipping of every garden I ever was a part of - and - for as long as was possible visited every public garden I ever designed. Today I gave her my first, the @melbflowershow show garden gold medal for her birthday, 81 years young. I think Bency would have approved this one @semkenlandscaping ☺️.
Px

Professional landscape designers and architects of

Professional landscape designers and architects of Ukraine members seminar.

Спікер: Peter DONEGAN MSGD
ландшафтний архітектор
www.DoneganLandscaping.com

Вебінар: «Ландшафтний дизайн – мрії та рівняння»
Коли: 15 червня, 2023 р., 17:00-19:00

Хостінг:
www.bljournal.com

Плата за цей семінар не приймається.
з любов’ю Петро
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Speaker: Peter DONEGAN MSGD
landscape architect
www.DoneganLandscaping.com

Webinar: "Landscape design - dreams - equations"
When: June 15, 2023, 17:00-19:00

Hosting:
www.bljournal.com

No fee has been accepted for this seminar.
with love, Peter

Peter Donegan MSGD, AATE Design Lab Ambassador 202

Peter Donegan MSGD, AATE Design Lab Ambassador 2023. For now & to keep this short, @archattheedge are a Galway based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of architecture as culture. For more information, pop along to their website.
📸: @roadstoneltd

The completely beautiful 116th @royalwindsorflower

The completely beautiful 116th @royalwindsorflowershow and my return to judging there takes place Saturday 10th June 2023 at Windsor Great Park. With talks by @rosemary_hardy and Alan Titchmarsh, gardens by @landformuk, plants by @harknessroses & @plantagogo (to name but a few), all exquisitely managed by @alexatchelsea and wrapped into 1 day that makes my heart as giddy now about horticulture as I was when I started growing aged but 6. Tickets on sale and looking forward to meeting you there. Peter

Gold medal. Thank you Melbourne International Flow

Gold medal. Thank you Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2023.

What started out as a daydream which became a series of equations to only ever appear as a daydream - an Irish love story as Channel 7 News reported it - became for but 5 days a reality.

Of the 120,000 visitors to the Southern Hemispheres largest and most prestigious flower show and one of worlds top 3 garden shows some, were astounded at the scale of the feat Martin saw complete and @semkenlandscaping maestro‘d others, simply teared their eyes of an enchanting yet poignant sonnet of hearts separated.

That this garden was realised, as versus retained solely to the rear of the mind is becuase of a litany of far greater than I stalwarts for whom I am indebted and you who allowed every ounce that is of pure magic become part of this 70 tonne weight above ground only gold medal show garden, never to be forgotten, now past.

For your brain and your smile when Australia‘s weather became completely Irish and at times it was against the clock - take a bow, thank you.

Sometimes, just sometimes they live forever, started with a locket.

X Peter

Gold medal. The Bam Stone Garden. Designed by Pete

Gold medal. The Bam Stone Garden. Designed by Peter Donegan, constructed Semken Landscaping Pty Ltd and presented by Bamstone has won Gold Medal at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2023.
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The central boulevard 200 square meter show garden is a contemporary vision of a love story, and two hearts separated by a small island off the coast of Galway to the mainland. Featuring a series of natural bluestone steps that symmetrically weave their way through a rocky landscape, recognisant of the journey made across the Atlantic from the Connemara coast. The destination is a limestone (moleanus) island featuring planting, shelter, and a single 8 meter tall Liriodendron tulipifera reflecting across the black water, a beacon to those who wish to return to their love.

The story albeit interpretive, is that of a man hoping, in reality, in vain that on the island his beau and he will meet and be together. However that is of a daydream and completely plausible by sole virtue of imagination and daydreams where their impossible becomes possible and separation by water no longer exists.
This garden is also representative of love’s many forms - unrequited love, true love kept apart by distance, or unconditional lovers no longer physically together but never forgotten in the heart.
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A very special note of thanks:
- The crew and family of @semkenlandscaping
- @bamstone_bluestone Statement rocks, steppers, table and chairs
- @cedstonegroup Stone (UK)
- @Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
- Antique Perennials - @antique_perennials
- Better Exteriors @betterexteriors Normandy Sandblasted Limestone
- Bio Gro - @biogroaustralia Premium 6-9mm mulch
- Established Tree Transplanters - Liriodendron statement tree @establishedtrees
- Gardens at Night - Garden lighting @gardens_at_night
- Lilydale Instant Lawn - Exterior turf @lilydalelawn
- Newlands Constructions - Build support @newlandsconstructions
- Warners Nurseries - Acmena Green Screen hedge @warnersnurseries

Peter Donegan MSGD. @societyofgardendesigners

Peter Donegan MSGD.
@societyofgardendesigners

With @timentwisle at The Royal Botanic Gardens Vic

With @timentwisle at The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

The @shrineofremembrance. This Monument Was Erecte

The @shrineofremembrance. This Monument Was Erected By A Grateful People To The Honoured Memory Of The Men And Women of Victoria Who Served The Empire in The Great War of 1914 - 1918.

The team at the Pro Landscaper Business Awards are

The team at the Pro Landscaper Business Awards are pleased to announce that Peter Donegan Garden Design has been shortlisted in the Best Garden Design Company Category, created to celebrate garden design studios and businesses.

The @prolandscaper Business Awards ceremony in association with @cbsolarshading takes place Old Billingsgate, London Friday 21 April 2023.

By invitation of: Melbourne Friends of Royal Botan

By invitation of: Melbourne Friends of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Guest Lecture: Garden Designer Peter Donegan
Date: Wed 22nd March 2023
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tickets: Non members $30 / Friends $20
Location: Mueller Hall, Royal Botanic
Gardens Victoria Australia @royalbotanicgardensvic
RSVP: Monday 20th March 2023
www.rbgfriendsmelbourne.org @friendsroyalbotanicgardensmelb
- This year’s Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show @melbflowershow will feature Peter Donegan, an internationally renowned horticulturist, garden designer and speaker. His practice was borne in 2001 and very swiftly achieved acclaim winning a host of awards for 17th & 18th century gardens & show gardens at national competition.

In 2018, Peter was one of 14 designers selected to create garden spaces at historic locations to commemorate the centenary of the ending of World War 1. The peace garden, Jardin Eutychia (after the Green Goddess of Happiness) was realised at Chateau de Péronne @historial1418, home to Europe’s largest war museum within the 13th century French castle, north of Somme. Peter returned last year to open his second design at the Chateau, Jardin Philophrosyne, an internal courtyard within the medieval buildings, that features an extraordinary herbarium of world war medicinal plants.
Come hear Peter talk to us of these two extraordinary designs and provide a sneak peak of his high-anticipated Show Garden (construction by @semkenlandscaping) that opens a week later at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.
Mueller Hall
Entry via Oak Lawn Gate (formerly Gate F)
Refreshments from 5.30pm
w/ thanks @cedstonegroup (others to follow) for your support
#melbflowershow #mifgs

26|01|2023: Inspirational Speaker: Looking forwar

26|01|2023: Inspirational Speaker:
Looking forward to a return to The Design Centre by Chelsea Harbour and speaking with the newest garden design diploma students of @klcgardendip, one of The UK’s leading garden design colleges, managed by the completely brilliant @studio_ikram et @jessicaannecattle.

Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show - 2

Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show - 29th March to 2nd April 2023.

Garden Name: tbc
Garden Designer: Peter Donegan
Contractor: @semkenlandscaping
Category: Show Garden, Large
Dimensions: 20 x 10 m
Build time: 9 days
Sponsor/ Supported by: updates to follow

#melbflowershow by @lovethegarden_au is the largest and most prestigious horticultural event in the Southern Hemisphere.
Located in the World Heritage Site of Carlton Gardens & The Royal Exhibition Building it is rated in the top 5 garden shows in the world.
This year Peter Donegan becomes the first Irish garden designer in the shows history invited and accepted to design at the prestigious show.
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Peter Donegan Garden Design is an international and local garden design, landscape architecture and project management practice based in Dublin, Ireland.

In 2001 aged 24, Peter Donegan Garden Design was borne and swiftly won a host of awards for 17th & 18th century gardens designed & show gardens at national competition.

From 2019 - 2022 The RHS silver medalist became the series garden designer for the country’s most watched tv show and RTE television’s DIY SOS The Big Build Ireland.

Selected to represent Ireland to design & realise the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden at Chateau de Peronne Historial de la Grande Guerre in 2018, he returned and designed a second inaugurated garden there in 2022 to commemorate the anniversary of Europes largest war museum housed within the castle.

2023 will see Peter Donegan become the first Irish Landscape Architect invited and accepted to design at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show March 2023 - the largest flower show in Southern Hemisphere. �

My absolute honour to meet with The Honorable Gary

My absolute honour to meet with The Honorable Gary Gray AO, Australian Ambassador to Ireland @ausembire to discuss my show garden for @melbflowershow 2023 - constructed by @semkenlandscaping - and being the first Irish garden designer invited and accepted to design at the southern hemisphere’s largest and most prestigious flower show.
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My thanks to Ambassador Gray and the Embassy Staff for being so beautiful in their support. It‘s been a while since I took the short cut from Grafton Street through St Stephens Green and what perfect company to stroll alongside.
Peter
#MIFGS2023

My absolute honour to be interviewed by Bertrand F

My absolute honour to be interviewed by Bertrand Fournier for @iceomagazine featured in the latest issue of their very beautiful publication.

Bertrand and I discuss @artetjardinshdf and how I became 1 of 14 designers selected globally to design a garden to remember the ending of the 1st world war, representing Ireland. The 30’ below street level garden I designed was in the dried up moat of 13th C Château de Péronne and was Inaugurated in 2019 alongside Embassy of Ireland France - Ambassade d'Irlande en France then Amb Patricia O’Brien and @irish_in_france.

The castle known also as @historial1418 Historial de la Grande Guerre is home to Europes largest war museum who not only have the most amazing staff but also is well worth visiting - We delve into the latest garden I designed there in 2022. In this occasion in the inner defence courtyard (a place you are not meant to get into, which made the design for build a little interesting).

We talk looking to the future but remembering the past, daydreams and gardens that are borne from that matter but also have a billion equations behind the curtains….. and a little darkness behind the research when (self imposed) submerged into a horrorful wars research in order to be able to realise the opposite and convey that message on behalf of a town that became my 2nd home and that I adore.

The 2nd garden was Inaugurated in 2022 Hervé Francois (Director, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peter Donegan (Landscape Designer), @guillaume_duflot (President Historial de la Grande Guerre), @stephane_haussoulier President du @sommeledepartement Yael Menache (Deputy), Valérie Kumm (Councilor Departmental), Michéal Tierney (Deputy Ambassador, Irish Embassy France), Jean-Paul MULOT (Conseiller régional @region_hautsdefrance).

An absolute honour to chat Australia’s finest @l

An absolute honour to chat Australia’s finest @lvml_members @landscaping_victoria Master Landscapers’ The Front Garden Podcast with Tyson Owen and Chris Weiss. With thx Megan & Mitch.
Sponsored by @botanixplants
cc/ @semkenlandscaping

An absolute honour to be invited to speak with Par

An absolute honour to be invited to speak with Paraic on The Snug, The @irish_in_france podcast when I was in Paris last week.
Huge thanks @paullynchparis for asking. Humbled always.
Superb podcast. Decent listen. In Spotify and all good podcast stores.

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