Jardin Philophrosyne, the next garden made and realised by Ballyboughal’s Peter Donegan Backyard garden Layout at a 13th century castle was formally inaugurated in France, recently.
he new backyard was intended in celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Historial de la Grande Guerre, Europes biggest war museum embedded inside of the towns emblem in the Somme area of Northern France.
In 2018, Ballyboughal garden architect Donegan was one particular of 14 designers picked from about the world to style and design at historic locations to commemorate the centenary of the ending of WW1.
The peace backyard, Jardin Eutychia (after the Greek Goddess of Happiness) was realised in the Chateau’s dried up moat.
Of the most latest project, at initially glance the garden is a guests most beautiful welcome, but it is made up of also a herbarium of planet war medicinal crops, digital truth story telling and a total dimension Panzer tank and a plant array of scent made to evoke memory inside the 3 tiered house contained in just a cities castle courtyard that has fallen a few periods.
Since 2019, the castles in-house analysis employees, its Director Hervé Francois and Peter Donegan together with Chloe Quinn have labored side by aspect on elements of the gardens depth.
Peter Donegan details out : “The challenging part of this structure and as essential, the realisation was that castle and in unique the courtyard was designed in the end to maintain men and women out and in this projects circumstance the only accessibility was by means of the buildings front archway and by means of the 17 metre lengthy tunnel. Invariably the gardens achievements came down to a incredibly shut working romantic relationship with among other individuals landscape contractors Laurent Dachy and the carpentry group Clement Henocque (CH Bois).”
In accordance to Assistant Designer Chloe Quinn: “That we took a daydream built it into an equation and, it people today wonder how we built it all happen is specifically what we originally dreamt when we had been appointed to this magical and now eloquently fitting but wonderful venture.”
Peter Donegan is an internationally renowned horticulturist, backyard designer and speaker. His practice was borne in 2001 and incredibly quickly reached acclaim profitable a host of awards for 17th & 18th century gardens & demonstrate gardens at countrywide opposition. Peter is the series backyard garden designer for Do it yourself SOS The Large Build for RTE Tv, an RHS Silver medalist and has made at Château de Péronne, France in 2019 and 2022.
