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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That is beautiful!!
bkmk
Beautiful; thanks for posting.
Awesome video; thanks.
Nice garden. Must’ve required quite a staff to maintain it. I didn’t know Monet had that kind of money.
Thank you for sharing!! We all need to be reminded of God’s beauty from time to time.
I was there in June one year. Just an incredible place. If you are in France its a must see.
Thanks for providing such DELIGHT! this Saturday morning.
Absolutely beautiful.
Looks like a picture the Count de Money, I mean Monet, would have in his home.
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During my undergrad studies, the MFA was but a few blocks from my college.....so frequent trips to the collections was often.
In the Monet room, depending on the light in the gallery, any time of day, brought a new perspective of his *haystacks*.....charming, alluring.
http://www.monetpaintings.org/haystacks/
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