The garden that the writer, artist and film-maker Derek Jarman conjured up on a blasted plain of littoral shingle near Dungeness power station in Kent is, I would guess, fairly well known. Indeed, since Jarman's death in 1994, his formula of sparse planting punctuated by totemic arrangements of post-industrial trouvés has overspread its faintly Dadaist roots.
What is less well known, or it was to me, is the extent to which the garden was not just maintained but enhanced after the maestro's death by "the widow Jarman", Keith Collins, known to Jarman as Hinney Beast or HB, who worked variously as an IT guy, actor, fisherman and London Underground train driver.
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