"If I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colors and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a color garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colors will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink."-Marcel Proust, "Splendors," Le Figaro, June 15, 1907
Top and middle photo courtesy of giverny.org
Bottom photo courtesy of gay nomad on flickr.
2 comments:
That's a gorgeous place. Though very hard to grasp from a few photos, even from those on the official website.
Is that all one house!
Those tulips don't flower for very long; and that greenery covering the house, and hanging from the various arbours, presumably flowers at sometime too.
You'd need to stay there for 6 months to soak up the proper experience.
It's certainly inspirational, for gardeners and artists alike.
The entire property is to die for. The gardens seem to go on and on and Proust was right: it was less the work of nature than that of an artist whose eye created such an exquisite landscape. It takes my breath away, almost as much as the works that were borne of it.
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