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 [...]

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inspired by street planting?!!

If nothing else apart from making you smile on a Monday morning… wouldn’t it be simply breathtaking if every piece of public area space had as much thought put into it! We may not be able to freely or as easily grow the same varieties of plants in Ireland but horticulture does allow us to [...]

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epiphytic? platycerium?!

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 [...]

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we just needed to rest our hands…

… but today we return from our summer holidays and after a fine rest it is a delightful welcome I give to our beloved Irish weather, another no doubt amazing horticultural calender year and to a trade I dearly love. Whatever your plans these coming seasons – enjoy. Happy Horticulture 2008! peter

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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 [...]

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2007 a good year ?

Our year started with preparations for Bloom 2007. The nicer part of the horticultural business built with some superb help, but no sponsor! With a business to keep afloat and 9 full time staff on the payroll – this is where the horticultural business become really exciting – but so very real and also where [...]

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judges comments & the alci awards

We received the Judges comments on our garden today. They said; ‘for exemplary standard of landscaping’ judges’ commented on the Private Garden Landscaping [award of merit] & the Private Garden Maintenance [winning garden] “the work illustrates a consisted commitment to horticultural excellence in a restoration project that requires a keen understanding of the client’s requirements. [...]

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two landscaping awards for brackenstown house

October 18th 2007 saw Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd win two  national landscaping awards as both designer and contractor. Donegan Landscaping won the award of Merit in the best private garden category and the overall award for best private garden maintenance, whilst  Peter Donegan received award as designer of Veronica and Paddy Campbells 27 acre 16th [...]

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