dragon-tooth garden and co

'here at the seas's edge
i have planted my dragon-tooth garden..'

                        Derek Jarman



we went to visit two gardens with the boys.
a bit tired (or shall i call it by its name - hungover), mellowed by the may sun
we went to sussex and dungeness, quite close to each other, but so different.
in sussex we went to the great dixter garden, very sophisticated.
and dungeness, this weird bit of a coast, is a home to a power station and derek jarman's cottage and garden.
it's a very special garden, grown on a land where it's difficult to imagine anything can actually grow..
it's poetic and ethereal, the lack of any fence makes it disappear into the landscape





great dexter:

jarman's garden and dungeress:

i had this weird dream about india today, woke up filled with sun and strange energy. Outside of my dream there is rain and winter which is slowly becoming a promise of spring. i'll go against this current and dig out some of my india photos from a few years back. here is one of them