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Landscape architect Peter Donegan and his design for the Museum of the Great War in Péronne, northern France

This afternoon

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

From top Peter Donegan; Peter’s design for this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

This Summer

Following the WW1 Centenary Peace garden he designed for the 13th century Chateau de Peronne in France, Dublin-born garden designer Peter Donegan returns to ‘show gardening’ at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2020.

Peter’s show garden – ‘Northern Roots Oldham Garden’ (top) – has been designed to showcase the new green space project Northern Roots, the UK’s largest urban farm and eco-park placed in 160 acres of green space in the heart of Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Paying homage to Oldham’s Industrial heritage, the Northern Roots Oldham Garden will incorporate York stone and sandstone salvaged from Oldham’s Grade 2 listed Town Hall and 19th century mills.

In fairness.

Peter Donegan

RHS Hampton Court Festival 2020

Previously: Peter Donegan on Broadsheet

Last Sunday.

Péronne, France.

The unveiling of the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden, located in the dried up moat of Chateau de Péronne near the Somme battlefields.

The garden, by Irish landscape designer Peter Donegan (above second right), was  officially inaugurated by Patricia O’Brien, Ambassadeur d’Irlande en France (above in light blue coat).

Ms O’Brien was joined by Xavier Bertrand (Président de la Région Hauts-de-France), Thérèse Dheygers (Maire de Péronne) and Hervé François (Directeur de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre) and members of the Irish in France Association.

Peter Donegan’s garden was selected by a French jury to represent Ireland and he is one of 14 international designers chosen to design nine memorial gardens around the Hauts-de-France region.

Peter Donegan

Previously:  How Does His Garden Glow?

From top: Peter Donegan (left) and Ed Burnham of Burnham Landscaping: Peter’s silver Medal-winning garden at the RHS Flower Show Cardiff

With silver bells!

You might recall earlier this month, we told you that Peter Donegan had become the first Irish gardener to have designs accepted to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Flower Show in Cardiff, Wales.

Well, Peter’s design, for UK based garden charity Perennial and constructed by Burnham Landscaping, won SILVER at the 180-year-old competition.

Last year, the Dubliner was selected by a French jury to represent Ireland to design and realise the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden at Chateau de Peronne in the Somme, Northern France.

The Perreniel Garden will now be relocated to Veterans Growth in East Sussex, England a charity who run horticultural therapy courses for ex-service men and women who have been diagnosed with a mental illness.

In fairness.

Peter Donegan

Previously: Blades of Glory

Dublin landscape gardener Peter Donegan, the first Irish designer to show at the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show in Cardiff and his garden (top).

Via Perennial:

To help mark its 180th anniversary, UK based garden charity Perennial has partnered with Irish garden designer Peter Donegan with a show garden for RHS Flower Show Cardiff (April 12-14).

It is the first time the horticulture trade charity has exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show and the first time Peter (or any Irish designer) has had designs accepted to the prestigous flower show.

In November 2018 Peter was selected by a French jury to represent Ireland to design and realise the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden at Chateau de Peronne in the Somme region of Northern France and see the garden in the dried up moat of the 13th century castle to completion. This will be Peter’s first public garden since his return.

After RHS Cardiff, the garden will be redesigned and relocated to Veterans Growth in East Sussex, a charity who run horticultural therapy courses for ex-service men and women who have been diagnosed with mental illness.

In fairness.

Peter Donegan