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Article: Monet comes West. (painter Claude Monet) (Special Issue: Spring-Summer 1994 Garden Guide)
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- March 22, 1994
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A California designer tended plants at the artist's garden in Giverny and brought home some ideas
For artist Claude Monet, gardening and painting were inextricably linked. "I owe having become a painter to flowers," he confessed. "More than anything, I must have flowers always, always." He considered his garden at Giverny, northwest of Paris, to be his greatest work of art as it evolved over 46 years. When I first saw Monet's garden, I was struck by the beauty and abundance of the flower beds. I wanted to know the garden more intimately, to know all the flowers in each season, to be there from spring through autumn, digging, pruning, planting, feeding, rejoicing. In ...