Gardener Peter wins top Australian medal

NoRTH Dublin-based Garden Designer Peter Donegan (inset) has won Gold with The Bam Stone Garden at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show 2023, the first ever Irish medal at the worlds prestigious show.

The central boulevard 200 square metre show garden constructed by Semken landscaping, a contemporary vision of a love story and two hearts separated by a small island off the coast of Galway to the mainland stole the hearts of the 120,000 visitors to world heritage site of The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens.

Peter Donegan Garden Design is an international and local garden design, landscape architecture and project management practice based in B allybough al in north Dublin.

In 2001 aged 24, Peter

Donegan Garden Design was borne and swiftly won a host of awards for 17th & 18th century gardens designed & show gardens at national competition.

From 2019 – 2022 The RHS silver medalist became the series garden designer for the country’s most watched tv show and RTE television’s DIy SoS The Big Build Ireland. Selected to represent Ireland to design & realise the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden