Druimchardain Garden. Glenshee.
A garden created by Geoffrey Dutton (1924 – 2010). Bio chemist, poet, writer, editor, mountaineer, wild water swimmer and not least gardener.
This is a selection (x10 images for each month) of an ongoing full year project.
The selection, and tonality are not definitive and may or might not be used in any final selection come the end of the project.
I was originally commissioned to photograph the garden on one short visit in September 2024. Seeing lots of potential in this amazing 'marginal' garden I sought permission from Kirsty, Geoffrey Duttons daughter who is now custodian. The garden is not open to the public.
'I Call It a ‘Garden’, a Place of Seeds: Geoffrey Dutton’s Lessons in Curiosity and Exploration.'
A small book of the garden and the result of a research project by Barbara Prezelj, ESALA, ECA, University of Edinburgh, commemorating Dutton can be downloaded as a PDF: HERE. (a bit slow to render but it will).
The book contains images (mine and by Dutton) and excellent essays by; Alec Finlay; Billy Lucas; Barbara Prezelj; and poems selected by Kirsty Jones, with one written by her following the death of her father.
