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Here are the pictures from my trip to Derek Jarman's 'Prospect Cottage', Dungeness, Kent last weekend

If you ever get the chance to visit Derek Jarman’s house, ‘Prospect Cottage’ sitting starkly on the shingled beach along Dungeness seafront, it is worth the journey.

My description really won’t do it justice, so I hope the pictures will inspire you to go and visit it for yourselves. The sheer starkness surrounding the cottage, the huge pale greyish carcass of the power station, sitting heavily in the background horizon.

It is the most absorbing place. The detail of the area creeps up and engulfs one pebble by pebble. I can barely wait to see it in mid-winter, stripped of its limited floral decoration.

Howard Sooley, the photographer that helped create the garden with Derek Jarman, describes it far better than I ever could - http://bit.ly/koUSK http://bit.ly/koUSK

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My plant hunting trip has been a huge success. I managed to track down the 5-6 plants I had in mind to make up a new Bee friendly border in the garden.

I’ve been meaning to put together a new flower border for the garden all winter, one that also helps attract a few more bees to the existing plants already in the garden, plus give me some added interest in the border during the mid to latter part of the summer and early autumn.

I’ve stuck to a simple colour scheme, using mainly yellow and purple/deep blue, with a little white and block planted to create texture and boldness. I’ve planted in groups of 3, 5 and 7, with the odd plant dotted off slightly to one side, in order to draw the eye away from it being too rigid.

Hope you enjoy. Pictures above are shown as per list of plants below.

Bugbane (syn. Cimicifuge) – ‘Actaea simplex Atropurpurea Group’

Black-Eyed Susan – ‘Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii Goldsturm’

Russian Sage – ‘Perovskia - Blue Spire’

Sage – ‘Salvia nemorosa Ostfriesland’

Yarrow – ‘Achillea Moonshine’

Verbena – ‘Bonariensis’

These are all flanked by some long established , quite tall bamboo.

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Here are the pictures from my trip to Derek Jarman's 'Prospect Cottage', Dungeness, Kent last weekend

My plant hunting trip has been a huge success. I managed to track down the 5-6 plants I had in mind to make up a new Bee friendly border in the garden.