A view of Prospect Cottage where the late artist and film director Derek Jarman made a dry shingle garden on Dungeness beach
Prospect Cottage the former home of the late artist and film director Derek Jarman at Dungeness on Romney Marshes Kent The house is built of tarred timber with a raised wooden text on one wall which is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem, The Sun Rising. The famous dry shingle garden is photographed through some drought tolerant poppies. The area is a SSSI or site of special scientific interest for its delicate shingle based ecosystem, Proudly gay, Jarman moved to the cottage as he struggled against AIDS and found solice in tending the beautiful windswept garden.
Size: 5130px × 3407px
Location: Dungeness beach Romney Marsh Kent England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, UK, Europe
Photo credit: © Roger Bamber / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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