The Premier Garden Show – Details, episodes & analysis

Want to know what we are up this thursday the 29th at Bord Bia Bloom in Dublin me and Ciaran Burke will be doing podcasts from Bloom

On this weeks episode I have a chat with owner of The Paddock Garden and Johnstown Garden Centre head of horticulture Ciaran Burke

Bumblebees are familiar and much-loved insects that pollinate our crops and wildflowers, so people are rightly worried. With disappearing nature corridors, urgent action is needed to provide habitat and protect their populationsSo I took the time out to chat with Nikki from The Bumblebee Conservation Trust to find out why we our Bumblebee is in danger and what we can do

What can I say about this hard working very much grounded multi award winning garden designer Pip Probert I get to chat and share an insight into this award winning garden designer

A quick episode on daffodils

Some perennials that will help keep them weeds at bay in your garden and also I give you reasons why your indoor plant is droopy

Here is some of The Premier Garden Show flowers that will add colour to your garden no matter the time of the year

On this weeks epsiode I chat with the very colourful Gemma Cutler. Gemma runs the Colourwheel Garden on Instagram and You Tube. She is a talented floral Artist from England so please check Gemmas page out and give her a follow

https://www.instagram.com/colourwheelgarden/

https://www.youtube.com/@ColourWheelGarden

Peter Donegan is an international and local landscape architect / garden designer and speaker based in Dublin, Ireland. He was named in The Top 100 UK Garden Designers 2024.

March 2024 Peter designed the shows featured garden at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) winning Silver and The People’s Choice Award. He was also a garden judge at the show.

2023 Peter Donegan became the first Irish landscape architect invited to design at MIFGS the Southern Hemisphere’s largest and most prestigious flower show where he won Gold medal.

Selected to represent Ireland to design & realise the WW1 Centenary Peace Garden at Château de Péronne in 2018, Peter returned in 2022 and designed a 2nd inaugurated garden at the 13th Century castle known also as the Historial de la Grande Guerre, home to Europe’s largest war museum. 

From 2019 to 2022, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) silver medallist assumed the role of series garden designer for Ireland’s most watched TV show, RTE’s DIY SOS The Big Build.

In 2001, aged 24, horticulturist Donegan began designing under his own name and swiftly won a host of awards for 17th & 18th century gardens designed & show gardens at national competition.

Peter Donegan MSGD is a registered member of The Society of Garden Designers (UK), has been a garden judge in London and Melbourne and an international guest speaker, master of ceremonies and garden design lecturer.

Contact Peter about your landscape design project: 

• Email: hello@doneganlandscaping.com 
• Phone:  +353(87)6594688

Quick episode on some gardening advice in your garden in February