By invitation of KLC School of Design, West Dean College Arts & Conservation Guest Lecture: Landscape Designer Peter Donegan Date: Thursday 26” January 2023 Location: KLC School of Design Design Centre Chelsea Harbour London SW10 OXF, UK Further information: www.klc.co.uk ..read more

Joel Barnett of InStyle Gardens and host of Australia’s most popular The Landscaping Podcast interviews Peter Donegan as his 1st guest of 2023. The podcast is available in all good podcast stores (audio) and in YouTube. From 1980’s Ireland, being 1 of 8 children and cutting grass to earn money to buy seeds to Teagasc Kildalton College of Horticulture, becoming 1 of 14 designers selected globally representing Ireland, designing at 13th Century Château de Péronne (Historial de la Grande Guerre – Musées de Péronne & Thiepval) twice. We of course talk about my designs for Melbourne Internatio ..read more

Sarah Blake interviews Peter Donegan. Earthology Green Sense podcast is available in Spotify and all good podcast stores. Peter Donegan is an amazing landscaper who has been an environmentally conscious garden designer and landscaper, long before it was fashionable. His gardens always consider the natural environment. From 2019 – 2022 The RHS silver medalist became the series garden designer for RTE‘s DIY SOS The Big Build Ireland. He was selected to represent Ireland to design & realise the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden at Chateau de Péronne in 2018, and returned to design a second in ..read more

It was my absolute honour to chat with Australia’s finest Landscaping Victoria ‘Master Landscapers’​ The Front Garden Podcast hosted by Tyson Owen and Chris Weiss. From gardens at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, gardens for RTE television shows and a Royal Horticultural Society garden that could never happen to what’s meant for you wont pass you by to climate change conferences with Louth Local Development and just how a chat with the entirely talented Trevor Cochrane turned into a show garden alongside the amazing Semken Landscaping Ltd. Look forward to seeing you at Melbourne Internation ..read more

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire and produced by Paul Lynch, The Irish in France Podcast – The Snug, interviews members of the Irish community in France and those connected with it. Some of the interviewees are well known and others less so, but all have an interesting story to tell while also sharing their selection of music. You can listen to the conversations here: The Snug Podcast on Anchor FM The Snug Podcast on Spotify From television, work abroad and how a young Peter Donegan went was from dreaming gardens age 6 to being selected to design gardens at castles in Fran ..read more

Hosted by Louth County Council the third year of the county-wide environmental competition “Louth in Bloom“ competition opened for entries/ nominations May 2022. The evening’s celebrations 24 October 2022 at the prestigious Bellingham Castle venue will also host Garden Designer and Landscape Architect Peter Donegan as guest speaker and awards presenting. The aim of the competition is to acknowledge, recognise and reward the work being carried out by the community/ business sectors and volunteers. The categories in this competition include: Best Gardens, Best Housing Estates, Best Bi ..read more

Detail: Special Feature Award Project: DIY SOS The Big Build RTE Television, New Ross Episode Client: Motive Television plc Made Really Real By: A Billion of the Greatest Hearts For The Greatest Hearts Garden Design: Peter Donegan Garden Design The small project BIG IMPACT awards celebrate excellence in the complexity and value of smaller schemes throughout the UK. Heralding the projects that often go unnoticed at other awards within the landscaping community. Leading professionals within the garden design and build sectors will appraise the ‘BIG IMPACT’ of each project, and also mark each p ..read more

Peter Donegan to design show garden for Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show 2023, the largest and most prestigious horticultural event in the Southern Hemisphere.  Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, the largest horticultural event in the Southern Hemisphere located in the World Heritage Site of Carlton Gardens and The Royal Exhibition Building returns 29th March to 2nd April 2023.  Rated among the top five flower and garden shows in the world, it showcases only the finest calibre of garden design and landscape architecture talent selected from Australia a ..read more

Project: The Courtyard Garden Location: Mercy College Sligo, Ireland Design: Peter Donegan Garden Design Description: The garden is based in the centre of the school, visible via classrooms and corridors on all 4 sides. The garden features: 1) A covered outdoor classroom based loosely on The Giants Causeway with varied height permanent seating, accessible spacing between and SUDS paving. 2) A 3.49 metre tall, 4 legged Juicy Salif giant squid-esque structure. It’s head is elevated slightly, in between containing an anemometer and full weather station linked to the science classroom; 3) Café M ..read more

Event Director Jeremy Storey-Walker presents The Great British Garden Festival ambassador medal to Garden Designer Peter Donegan at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022. It was my absolute honour to be presented with the much coveted ambassadors medal alongside my fellow peers of the horticulture industry such as Heather Barrett Mold OBE, David Richardson Director of Horticulture Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Garden Designer Kate Gould and Kenny Raybould to name but a few. Further information: www.greatbritishgardenfestival.org.uk ..read more