Monet’s garden – the borders

Aug 25, 2011 by The idle gardener    No Comments    Posted under: Overseas

We visited Monet’s garden on 10 August 2011. It is located 80 km West from Paris, France in the village of Giverny. Claude Monet, a master of impressionist painting, was born in 1840. He rented a house at Giverny in 1883, a few years later he purchased the house. He lived there for 43 years, until his death in 1926. He developed the garden to provide subjects for his painting.

The garden is in two parts; near the house are herbaceous borders. In a separate area cross a main road is the lily pond with its Japanese bridge made famous by Monet’s paintings. Since the road is quite busy with tourist traffic, a pedestrian tunnel has been constructed to give the visitors easy access to the water gardens.

This first post features pictures of Monet’s house and the herbaceous borders.

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