Posted on 04/16/2021 7:45:57 PM PDT by simpson96
In May 1883, Monet and his family moved to Giverny, a small village about fifty miles west of Paris. He rented a large house which came with an ample-sized garden with alleyways of cypresses and orchards of various fruit trees. The garden needed immediate attending. The amount of work to bring it to the state of Monet’s taste was a handful.
With the help of his family, he changed its appearance from a farming plot to a flowering garden. Around the house, he sowed seed for his favourite annuals: poppies, sunflowers, and nasturtiums. In springs he would plant daffodil bulbs and primroses and willowherbs. With his gardening friend, Gustave Caillebotte, another Impressionist painter, they swapped seeds and cuttings, exchanging advice and expertise on handling flowers.
By the late 1880’s Monet started gaining substantial popularity, both in Europe and across the Atlantics. In November 1890 he could finally purchase the house. Now on his private land he embarked on a much more ambitious gardening plan: he hired two full-time gardeners, which will eventually grow to six, built a large greenhouse just to propagate species and reserve bulbs, and rented a separate garden, not far away from his house, to move all the vegetable and fruits, so he can devote his own garden solely for his flowers. His flower collection grew with a more extravagant range of species, which must have cost him a fortune: irises, peonies, delphiniums, Oriental poppies, asters and many species of sunflowers.
Unlike structured and rather linear French gardens, Monet’s one was acquiring more English style. Instead of spacing them apart, he covered every inch of the bed with foliage and annuals, perennials, and biennials. As a result, it was a garden curated through the eyes of an artist.
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Impressive.
Impressionistic.
I’ve been to the gardens at Mount Vernon, Monticello, and the George Wythe house, and this one has all 3 beat.
He had a lot of help... He sure did not do all this gardening on his own.
Wow, that is outta this world.
Good to see the Japanese bridge can stand up to a load of tourists...
What a wonderful garden. This would be a good place to teach a Botany Class.
I was just about to complain that he didn’t include one of my personal favorites; The Wisteria Vine, when I saw a large on near a bridge.
Tulipmania had already occurred in Holland about 100 years before this (1636), so Monet very likely had an easy time collecting as many varieties of tulip that he wished to pay for. However, for obvious reasons, the Opium Poppy may have been in scare supply, even for a wealthy man.
Noted everyone bundled up for cold temps.
Texan doesn't associate Spring with cold.
But could just be old people who cannot regulate body temp.
Now THAT’S a garden.
It must be beautiful. But somebody photoshopped those images to a state of color hysteria.
It’s like walking through a Monet!
FLR
every photo looksl ike it could be a monet painting
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“He’s from the impressionist school. You know... Monet, Manet, Tippy Tippy Day Day.”
Visited there in 2015. Amazing place, and it meant so much to me having seen it, as Monet was my dear departed Mom’s favorite artist.
She would have LOVED it even more so as she was also an avid gardener.
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