The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
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, 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.
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Mar 20th, 2008
yesterday was not the most usual of days in my horticultural career! This 1957, 33 foot, 7 tonne boat is the model Royal Cruiser IV that will be used in Bloom 2008, the garden show extravaganza in the Phoenix Park this June Bank Holiday weekend.
It took 7 men, a 30 tonne specialist marine transporter and [...]
Posted in every post to date, my books - my reviews on Mar 1st, 2008
I bought this book about 8 years ago now and at the time it cost about €100 [possibly púnts at the time?]. If botany and intricate plant studies are what turns one on… then this is your cup of tea. Do understand this is not Sunday afternoon reading. It is a referene book. A bible [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Feb 20th, 2008
Daffodil bulbs! it might be a little nippy out - but it is fantastic to see nature bring that little touch of inspiration! Whilst most of the bulbs planted last year are still attempting to bloom - there are a few that have had the courage to test themselves against the sub zero celcius [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Feb 9th, 2008
Picture: Aidan Cotter [chief executive Bord Bia], David Milner [landscape manager], Peter Donegan [Director] & Trevor Sargent [Green Party]
Friday 8th February saw The Donegan Lanscaping team be awarded The Quality Award. Last year we achieved the award of merit, but, thanks to the hard work of the entire team, we have been certified [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Feb 7th, 2008
I bought this plant around five years ago. But only recently has it started to show its true beauty. An aged, almost antique piece for the garden The ‘corkscrew hazel’ as it is commonly known produces tiny catkins which develop around the winter period.
I found it very difficult to get a really good photograph - but [...]
Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Jan 28th, 2008
I was asked some time ago to put my pictures of this garden on the web. Designed by Goncalo Castro Henriques and his team using digital technology the ‘garden was generated in a virtual environment’ and ‘the data transmitted to a machine that produced a hybrid form.’
One should appreciate that the garden was [...]
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Jan 17th, 2008
this is the platycerium bifurcatum, more commonly know as staghorn fern. I thought it worth a mention being that it is so unusual and not exactly what one might see on O’Connell Street!
For those of you who dont know… epiphytic plants, in this case of fern, are plants that grow above the ground level and [...]
