Article: Monet's masterpiece blooms in an English country garden.(News)

Byline: Deborah James

SCHOOLGIRL Amy Phillips has been inspired to create a corner of England that will be forever . . . France . Her design for a water garden based on Claude Monet' s famous lily pond at Giverny, nort hern France , made such an impression on council officials that they decided to spend pounds 40,000 recreating the garden in a local park.

Amy, 13, a budding landscape architect from Burscough, West Lancs, came up with the design when her school,Lord's Gate primary, entered a competition at the Southport Flower Show.

Her design inc luded a Japanese bridge based on the one immortalised in Monet' s paintings and was awarded top ...

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