Donegan Wins Landscape Quality Award For 2010
February 26th 2010. Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd has achieved the Bord Bia Quality Award. The assessment for this award is through a stringently audited programme that was designed to raise standards within the landscape industry and increase customer confidence by rewarding companies who operate an awarded quality system through best practice and at the highest [...]
{ all posts, office } { 10 comments }donegan landscaping wins 2009 award
February 6th 2009 saw Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd win the 2009 Bord Bia Quality Award. It is in recognition of standards achieved under the Bord Landscape Quality Programme for 2008/2009. This is the second successive year for Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd to win the landscape quality award. Donegan Landscaping is one of only eight Irish [...]
{ all posts, office } { 7 comments }reeling in the years…
I was searching through some old emails and stumbled across this…. With special thanks to Paddy for what was one day to get this done… at the time [and still] it was so much appreciated. A great song and tells the No rubber Soul story story so well. Read the full story here.
{ all posts, my show garden[s] } { 0 comments }budget + designer = hot air??
I written many times about low budget gardening or gardening on [what you may consider to be] a low budget. Although not unusual, sometimes *it is* a case where the client cannot see what the end result will be. This is the first usual when one does not wish to employ a full design service. [...]
{ all posts, design } { 0 comments }Landscaping Costs How much?
In conversation with some members of the ALCI, I decided to do a brief survey on landscaping costs, generally speaking. All my staff are qualified in horticulture. We are members of the ALCI. I am a member of The Institute of Horticulture. Full Insurances. Quality Approved System and enough design and landscaping awards et cetera. [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 0 comments }Brackenstowns gardens & the sculpt exhibition
The award winning gardens of Brackenstown have hit the big screen. The gardens open for two weeks only for the Mid summer sculpt exhibition and this is one not to be missed. Tickets are limited and must be booked in advance through Gormleys Fine Art. Oliver is right, ‘what a setting’!
{ all posts, media } { 0 comments }taxing issues in the garden…
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….
{ all posts, ireland } { 0 comments }Bloom 2008 – Pour L’amour de Jeux
Without a main sponsor….. Peter Donegan’s design, titled ‘Pour L’amour de Jeux’ is a garden whose title and theme was chosen on the basis of a Designers desire to build and design ‘dream’ gardens because of a love of the game. With modern pressures and taken for granted hectic lifestyles this garden is a micro-haven [...]
{ all posts, my show garden[s] } { 6 comments }hamamelis x intermedia
Walking through the nurseries today selecting trees for a garden we are creating at the moment when I stumbled upon this little beauty flowering on its bare stems. Most of the trees I needed are in bud at present, but not in leaf and definitely theres rare, if any oportunity to see flower. Next time [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 3 comments }summer holidays… this christmas!
If you ever want a wedding in the summertime, marry Santa… but never a horticulturist! This Christmas our summer holidays start December 29th and we return Wednesday 16th January. Sounds like a long holiday but this is the first time the team [and I] have had a chance to sit down since this time last [...]
{ all posts, office } { One comment }making [it] your business [to be] a little more green
Can you imagine if every shop front made this amount of effort to the front of their business? Wouldn’t Dublin be that little more beautiful. With construction work, traffic and all of the usual razamataz which might not inspire excitement in your day – what an effect it would have! We did these planters for [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 2 comments }9 useful… gifts for a gardener this christmas
Most of my articles are questions that are asked and where it has been asked more than once, assuming it can be of benefit to others I put it here. For any garden enthusiast you might know here are my suggestions that ARE 1000% better than socks and a CD. If you prefer cooked turkey [...]
{ all posts, office } { 0 comments }hedges – formal or informal
If cutting nee maintaining fine lines of pristine planting isn’t for you then a formal hedge is not what you want. If however you like trimming or cutting from time to time and don’t mind ‘organised chaos’ then maybe you do! But a hedge as we [becoming elder] Irish know it, is something that requires [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }rootballs, bare roots & whips
All across Ireland on motorways, farmland and construction sites planting is taking place – but time waits for no man, to plant. Some say winter is the quite period for landscaping – I don’t really agree. There are exceptions to every rule but in general, plants [bare roots/ whips] are dormant in winter. This allows, [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }galway & landscaping.. not in my home[r]
I’ve just returned from Galway where the week truly could’ve only got better. When I visited in August what I found was nothing short of criminal. The ‘contractor’ had removed the foundations of the retaining wall leaving it falling away into the garden with the driveway. He also took up the trees & drainage pipes [...]
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