{"id":117896,"date":"2020-07-21T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/blooms-with-a-view-derek-jarmans-magical-garden-gets-a-transplant\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:03:25","slug":"blooms-with-a-view-derek-jarmans-magical-garden-gets-a-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/blooms-with-a-view-derek-jarmans-magical-garden-gets-a-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooms with a view: Derek Jarman's magical garden gets a transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSurrounded by poppies, sea kale and a nuclear power station, the late director\u2019s otherworldly cottage and garden in Kent have been saved for the nation. And now there\u2019s good news for anyone who can\u2019t wait to see insideWhen the director and artist Derek Jarman began making his garden on the great shingle expanse outside his cottage in Dungeness, local fishermen feared something occult was afoot. \u201cPeople thought I was building a garden for magical purposes,\u201d Jarman said at the time, \u201ca white witch out to get the nuclear power station.\u201dIt\u2019s not hard to see why. Approaching the black-tarred silhouette of Prospect Cottage, as you crunch your way across the otherworldly shingle desert on the tip of the Kent coast, you encounter a series of enigmatic stone circles bursting with red and yellow poppies. Driftwood totems rise above shaggy tufts of sea kale, while talismanic strings of pebbles dangle from rusting iron posts, above the metal balls of fishing floats emerging from clumps of gorse. The boxy hulk of a nuclear power station looms in the background, emitting a distant hum. It is one of the strangest, most magical garden scenes in the world \u2013 made no less so, back in the 90s, by the sight of Jarman in a hooded djellaba, pottering about among the blooms. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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