Derek Jarman created his own garden in the flat bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness Kent A passionate gardener from childhood he combined his painter's eye his horticultural expertise & his ecological convictions to produce a landscape which mixed the flint shells & driftwood of Dungeness; sculptures made from stones; the area's indigenous plants; & shrubs & flowers introduced by Jarman himself This book the last he ever wrote is his own record of how this garden evolved from its beginnings in 1985 to the day of his death in 1994