Derek Jarman's Garden

"It’s on the beach, facing the nuclear power station in Dungeness in Kent. I think this is the best gardening book ever written. It’s perfect. You have wonderful photographs by Howard Sooley, whom I know and have worked with. And the garden is made in an unlikely situation with huge skill and love. As a book it is incredibly personal, which I also love. I’m not sure, and in many ways I don’t think it matters. I am not really interested in his motivation for writing the book. For me, the book is just a celebration of him and his garden. Clearly he loved this garden immensely, and that really comes across. Another person living there would not have created something so lovely. It is uniquely his. “I think this is the best gardening book ever written” And the book is stunning. It is everything you could want from a gardening book – the combination of pictures, words and subject matter come together in an ideal way for an illustrated book."