The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Oct 9th, 2008
Bloom 2008 - ‘Pour L’amour de Jeux’
The entire pink boat story can be read here. My reason for publishing this… I/ we need a sponsor! If you think you can help or know anyone who can - please do not hesitate to contact me.
Many Thanks
peter
for bloom 2007 pr/ media list click here
Coverage
Other
Electric Picnic
29th, 30th, [...]
Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Oct 9th, 2008
Bloom 2007 - ‘No Rubber Soul’
The Morris Minor Car-den story can be read here. My reason for publishing this… I/ we need a sponsor! If you think you can help or know anyone who can - please do not hesitate to contact me.
Click here for Bloom 2008 information.
Many Thanks
peter
Coverage
Television:
17th May RTE ‘Capital D’
To view documentary [...]
Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Sep 24th, 2008
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.
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Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Aug 13th, 2008
this was around the time of bloom ‘07 [click here] and was a feature done for Capital D featured on rte. This was so much fun…. [I think it was my first time on the tiny screen]
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 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, 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 office on Nov 8th, 2007
After receiving our second & third awards both as designer and contractor this year, RTE’s Capital d did a show including the much celebrated and historical Brackenstown House Gardens. It’s our second time on the show this year and I know I was asked to put this up some time ago. You can watch it [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Oct 28th, 2007
This week - the irish government copped on with regard to provisional liscense holders in banning almost 450,000 from our roads - good thing - drastic - but good - then sort of changed their mind - until June 2008?!!
Typically irish, but we elected and pay them. This indymedia article probably explains the muppets decision [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Oct 17th, 2007
‘Tranquil settings, the finest of surrounds within the peaceful and serene grounds complete with parklands and golf course.’ This all sounds absolutely superb but what the small print on the booklet didn’t tell me was that this would be, for me, a true bus-mans holiday.
It was a few weeks ago when invited away [...]
