by Derek Jarman (Author), Derek Jarman (Author), Howard Sooley (Photographer)
Derek Jarman created his own garden in the flat, bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. A passionate gardener from childhood, he combined his painter's eye, his horticultural expertise and his ecological convictions to produce a landscape which mixed the flint, shells and driftwood of Dungeness; sculptures made from stones; the area's indigenous plants; and shrubs and flowers introduced by Jarman himself. This book, the last he ever wrote, is his own record of how this garden evolved, from its beginnings in 1985 to the day of his death in 1994.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Edition: 1
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 05 Jun 1995
ISBN 10: 0500016569
ISBN 13: 9780500016565
Book Overview: 'Still the best thing on gardening ever published' Observer