Landscape architect Peter Donegan and his design for the Museum of the Great War in Péronne, northern France
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In celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Historial de la Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War), Europe’s largest war museum embedded within the 13th Century Chateau de Peronne in the Somme region of northern France, Irish Landscape Architect Peter Donegan has been commissioned to design a new garden for the castle.
This is Peter’s second time to design at the location. Peter’s peace garden, Jardin Eutychia (after the Greek Goddess of Happiness) was realised in the Chateau’s dried up moat in 2018.
On this occasion the new landscape will be realised within the medieval building’s internal courtyard and officially inaugurated on June 25.
Peter, who is is the series garden designer for DIY SOS The Big Build for RTÉ, says:
“it is harrowing of the past when I consider the ultimate catalyst behind this garden, and my return to Péronne. On the other hand, how humbling is it to be invited again and relocate to design in a place I love so dearly
“At first glance the garden is a visitors most beautiful welcome, but it contains also a herbarium of world war medicinal plants, virtual reality story telling and a full size Panzer tank, within a town’s castle that has fallen three times.“
Previously: Some Corner Of A Foreign Field