The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Apr 29th, 2008
Award winning landscape architect, Peter Donegan, is at it again. This year his show garden ‘Pour L‘amour de Jeux’ (For a love of the game) in Bloom 2008 will feature a 1957, 11 metre, pink, three storey pleasure cruise boat!
Building on the success of ‘No Rubber Soul’ his award winning large show garden in Bloom [...]
Posted in every post to date, my books - my reviews on Apr 28th, 2008
Among the many books in my library I have a little gem called Go make a Difference - over 500 daily ways to save the planet. Whilst the book relates mainly to mainland UK it is still quite a fine journal crammed with useful links and thins that can be so easily done to help [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Apr 27th, 2008
After an early rise this morning to admire the beauty around me I went to Malahide, North Dublin to see the bi-annual boat show.
One of the reasons I wanted to go was to see if there was anything I could do more to add to the ‘thats an unusual [pink boat all included] garden’ tag [...]
Posted in every post to date, horticulture in ireland on Apr 27th, 2008
I awoke this morning to walk the dogs before going to the boatshow in Malahide with Aido [and the his two well mannered youngsters] to meet with Gene, another gentleman and associate. The weather was beautiful, the day simply amazing and the people I met just added to the brilliance.
This field of Brassicae napus [rapeseed oil], opposite [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Apr 23rd, 2008
since my last posts things have heated up, slightly! But a decision has been made by the Donegan Landscaping team not to release any [semi complete] photographs of the boat until in its fullest glory - and I can assure you D. B. Painters, Noel & the B.D.F. Commercials team are 99% complete on what [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Apr 22nd, 2008
last year Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd joined Barr 50. To those of you who aren’t familiar it’s basically a top 50 of those ‘who have pioneered a business as Gaeilge’ [through Irish]. Some found it difficult to appreciate why a company would spend time and effort to this when the business is horticulture?
Honestly? some time [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Apr 21st, 2008
At Peter Donegan Landscaping & Design we pride ourselves on creating only the finest gardens of the highest achievable calibre.
With national awards for garden design, landscaping and more recently the quality award - it shows that no matter what we do, as a team, from start to finish, inside and out - if quality assured [...]
Posted in every post to date, horticulture in ireland on Apr 16th, 2008
I planted some new Tilia Cordata ‘Greenspire’ [and carpinus betula in the distance] outside my office last October and complete with bird feeders I left them there to do what nature feels best for them. Not being the best bird photographer in the country [I usually scare them all away], I managed to snap this [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Apr 15th, 2008
this picture [above] was taken at last years bloom in the park and emailed to me by a colleague after the June Bank Holiday weekend - That same colleague emailed me again today with the same title wishing me luck in this years Bloom 2008 with this photograph of myself and our new Taoiseach Brian Cowan….
Posted in every post to date, horticulture in ireland on Apr 15th, 2008
just a beautiful image - It was also for an amazing project for an amazing gentleman who wanted to introduce more mature trees into an already native irish landscape. How considerate is that…. Makes me smile everytime! Brilliant.
