Garden

"And then the buds appear; in May they turn into a bouquet of white flowers with a tiny yellow centre - they have a heavy honey scent that carries across the Ness. The flowers then turn into seeds - which look like thousands of peas. They turn from green to the colour of bones. At this stage they are at their most beautiful - bouquets of pale ochre, several thousand seeds on each plant. Then the autumn wind returns, the leaves rot at the ground, dry up and are blown away by the wind; by November the catran is gone."

Excerpt from Derek jarman's garden, published by Thames & Hudson, 1995.