Great Gardens - “prospect cottage” by howard sooley

I first went to Dungeness, I think it was 1989 to photograph Derek It was like landing on the moon Prospect Cottage is a small black fisherman's cottage painted with tar It has a small domestic garden but with no fences so the garden goes all the way to the horizon, in every direction It's a very special place for me I spent a lot of time here gardening with Derek It's a garden without the normal conventions of gardening there are no borders, no fences no soil, for that matter just shingled and it's lovely and you're invited to garden with nature The end of the road is Dungeness Nuclear Power Station By day, it hums menacingly and at night it glows like the Emerald City on the horizon It's very special, it connects to the landscape in such a lovely way It becomes part of the landscape and with landscape the wildness becomes part of the garden