Derek Jarman's Garden, Dungeness
Derek Jarman was an English film director, artist, author, and gardener. He lived in a wood-clad cottage, Prospect Cottage, on the shingle shore at Dungeness. In this unlikely environment, he made a world-famous garden. The garden is not open to the public, nor is it private. It is unenclosed and can be seen from the road. On one side of the cottage is a poem - too dark to photograph, but is John Donne's poem The Sun Rising Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late school-boys and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices ; Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. In that the world's contracted thus ; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine her
