Prospect Cottage

The late film director, poet and writer Derek Jarman
fashioned this windswept and salt sprayed garden from
debris he found on the beach at his last home at Dungeness
in Kent as he unsuccessfully battled with the Aids virus.
The planting in shingle is augmented by naturally
occurring varieties of sea kale, horned poppies and sea
peas and forms one of the most iconic English gardens
of the twentieth century.
It is a lasting tribute to his indomitable and soaring spirit
that he managed, in extremis, to create a garden
of such stark beauty.
This wild and wind buffeted place is often lashed by
gales but can be a haven of tranquility on a summer’s
day such as this, when you can hear the buzzing of bees,
the flap of wings and the song of the skylark.