Bord Bia Award Winner 2008
(posted : March 2008)Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd has received the National Amenity Quality Award in recognition of standards achieved under the Landscape Quality Programme. The Award was presented to Peter Donegan MD of Donegan Landscaping Ltd by Mr Trevor Sargent, Minister for State, and Aidan Cotter CEO Bord Bia on Friday 8th February at the Mullingar Park Hotel.
The award is the result of more than five years of hard work. Through a stringently audited programme designed to raise standards within the landscape industry, increase customer confidence by rewarding companies who operate an awarded quality system through best practice.
On winning the award Peter Donegan said: 'We are very proud to receive this Award, it is so important to be recognized as a quality business operation so organised and now approved as it is to win awards for garden design.'
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ALCI Award Winner 2007
(posted : October 2007)Acknowledged as one of Irelands premier garden designers and landscaping companies Peter Donegan MI Hort and the Donegan Landscaping team have been presented with two national awards by the ALCI, (Association of Landscape Contractors of Ireland), Friday 19th October at Citywest Hotel.
The award of Merit in the best private garden category [over 13,000 Euro] and the overall award for best private garden maintenance was presented to Peter Donegan MD of Donegan Landscaping Ltd as both designer and contractor and Veronica and Paddy Campbell [client] for the restoration and rebuild of the historic 16th century estate of Brackenstown House.
The national awards presented are the result of work carried out on the five acre private estate and gardens of North County Dublin, a project which has taken over two years to complete.
Formerly known as Brackdenston Demesne it was previously owned by The Burnell Family [16th Century] but it was not until Chief Baron Bysse's daughter married Robert Molesworth [17th century] that a profound effect would be brought upon Irish landscaping. Molesworth was left bankrupt via his dreams of the 'ultimate' landscape in Brackenstown and whilst infrastructures where put in place the grounds were never completed. The next 350 years of Irelands own troubles ensured his dreams would not see completion until now.
On winning the award Peter Donegan said:
"I am very honoured to accept this award on behalf of the entire Donegan Landscaping team. This estate is very much a part of Ireland's history and it is an honour to have been chosen by The Campbell Family to design and rebuild an estate of such significance. The award is recognition for over two year's hard work rebuilding and restoring a landscape that has finally completed its original founders and present residents intended journey".
Accepting the award from Trevor Sargent Peter went on to say that "as a landscape designer it was a great honour to work on something as unique as Brackenstown House. The garden had an amazing overall layout which had to appear as if it remained untouched yet well maintained, and whilst its natural landscape plays a great role, the retention of the old walkways, sunken lawns and buildings within the grounds now still tell a wonderful history. The finished gardens have resurrected this once neglected 17th Century site into an icon of landscaping for the future".
The brief for the landscaping at Brackenstown House was to restore the garden to its former glory. The look of a 17th Century garden was to be maintained but had to be adapted to modern procedures, planting and costs. Divided into three parts, the garden includes a hidden garden, a main central garden and a kitchen garden. Sunken lawns, orchards and hidden walkways were also features of the garden that had to be restored.
According to a survey by Bord Bia the landscaping industry has grown by 42% over the past 3-5 years. The ALCI works to improve and maintain high standards of landscaping throughout Ireland for both the private and public sectors. Judgement of the Awards is based on original concept and design, standard of work in hard and soft landscaping, integration, suitability, efficiency and overall presentation.
Peter O'Toole, Chairman, ALCI comments "At ALCI our aim is to raise the standard of landscaping at all levels - from small private gardens through to commercial, Public Authority and sportsgrounds projects. The industry is growing at a very fast pace and the importance of landscaping for residential and commercial projects is finally being recognised. I'm delighted to see such high standards of design and build being achieved by the winning entries this year."
Garden of Hope Project 2007
(posted : August 2007)Peter Donegan is one of 25 volunteers that will build the garden in one week from the 2nd to the 10th of November 2007. This is a very ambitious project, the volunteers will be working from early in the morning until late into the evening to achieve this goal and finish on time.
The Niall Mellon Townships Trust is a house-building charity building houses for people whom are currently living in shacks in Cape Town, South Africa. It is hoped that the garden will become the central meeting point for the community, a place to play, meet, contemplate and enjoy the surroundings. The garden will be built on a designated site in Freedom Park, Cape Town on approx. 800 square metres.
If you would like to sponsor Peter in the Niall Mellon Township Challenge click here.
No Rubber - Soul [M'Anam gan Rubar]
(posted : July 2007)Videos | RTÉ's Capital D Feature | No Rubber - Soul Visuals
Peter Donegans garden design 'No Rubber- Soul' won silver in the large garden category in the inaugural year of Bloom in the Phoenix Park Friday 1st June. Donegans design, without a main sponsor was built by the 9 qualified staff of his own company cost and just over 100,000 euro to build. During the 20 day deadline we used over 1,500 plants; 50 square metres of rolled lawn;
4 tonne of recycled compost; 5 tonnes of recycled bark chippings; 6 tonnes of recycled tree stumps one 1965 morris minor and an outdoor flat screen television. Despite the rainfall over the bank holiday weekend over 50,000 people still flocked to see 31 year old Peters garden.
No decking, no paving, no additives or preservatives.... Imagine sitting within two thirds of a 1969 Morris Minor, watching the television, smokes plumes through the front grill
of your car and you sit back and watch nature and plant life grow around you. This is the garden that has no rubber but lots of soul. Built from 100% recycled and/ or recyclable products. Take a trip back to 1969 when men used shovels and gardens had soul.
Peter Donegan's design, titled No Rubber - Soul is a true garden for those who will never grow old in mind. A Tír na Nóg some might say, the garden was originally to be called after The Beatles Album 'Rubber Soul' but the theme tune 'Baby you can[t] drive my car' meant a slight adaptation had to be made. Designed to allow one consider our new 'green' Ireland and the extents, with a little imagination, to which we can grow this garden is very much a cosy atmosphere for two or an entertainment area for all.
The main feature of the garden a 1965 Morris Minor - built to commemorate the many Irish men with initially, great intentions who promise
to restore and rebuild projects but sometimes are never fully completed; it has been slightly adapted to via audio visual equipment to become an entertainment area of sorts and it should give the appearance that whilst unwillingly forgotten, the life of the garden continued to flourish around it.
With Very Special Thanks To
Tully Nurseries - master plant growers
B.D.F Trailers Ltd - suppliers of all transportation and restoration of morris
Summerhill Lawns - suppliers of lawn grown to suit our garden
Mooneys Moggies - suppliers and restoration of Morris Minor
Enrich.ie - recycling of soil to create our mulch and composts
EQ Audio and Events - for their genius minds and audio visual equipment
Paddy O'Hanlon for the amazing video
Top 50 Business as Gaeilge
(posted : August 2007)
At The Four Seasons Hotel on June 1st 2007, in conjunction with Price Waterhouse Cooper and Forais na Gaeilge Peter Donegan
MI Hort and Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd joined Barr 50, the top 50 companies to operate through the Irish language. The awards recognize those who have made efforts in their industry to use the Irish language to improve their business.
After making the website bilingual, initially, the company has slowly adjusted selections of his companies operations 'as gaeilge' and bilingual.
We didn't do anything catastrophic, we just made an effort through Irish. It is hoped that our customers will applaud this award and that our future efforts with Forais na Gaeilge will prove as successful. Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd is the first horticultural related company to join the elite top fifty.
Bord Bia Award 2007
(posted : 2007)Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd. has received a national award in recognition of standards achieved under the Landscape Quality Programme. This is our second National award since October 2006 and is only one of ten landscape & design companies in Ireland to have achieved the award. The Award of Merit was presented to Peter Donegan MD of Donegan Landscaping Ltd by Mr Brendan Smith, Minister for Horticulture and Food and Aidan Cotter CEO Bord Bia on Friday 2nd February at Citywest Hotel.
The award is the result of more than four years of hard work through a stringently audited programme that was designed to raise standards within the landscape industry and increase customer confidence by rewarding companies who operate an awarded quality system through best practice and at the highest standards possible to this sector of the horticultural industry.
On winning the award Peter Donegan said: "We as a team are delighted to win this award, Donegan Landscaping has been in business six years and having won a national award for our landscape and design in October '06 this now is recognition that a quality system is in place behind the scenes as well and now recognises the staff who work so hard to make each and every design and landscape project possible. "
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