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Garden Design - Monets Giverny Garden
When Monet moved into his house at Giverny, the acre of land he owned was dominated by pine trees. He cut every single one down, and only kept two mature Yew trees, that grew near the house, to please his wife. Later though, he added many new trees and tall shrubs, including the rare and exotic bamboo which he imported to help create the water garden over which he was to get French builders (with much mumbling and complaint apparently) to build a replica Japanese Bridge.
You cannot actually walk in Monet’s Garden (which is in fact two gardens, connected by a tunnel) but from the sidewalks around it you can obtain a very clear idea of what it must have been like to the painter.
Fruit tree and other ornamentals including willows, quinces and gingko are the structural support for climbing roses, which also dominate the iron arches lining the main garden path. More roses grow over the side of the house. Banks of annual flowers are maintained according to Monet’s own diaries to correspond with the views he would have seen every day of his life.
A few years later he bought land on the other side of a small brook and here he grew his water lilies in a garden that copied the designs he had seen in the Japanese prints he collected. He grew wisteria here, a bamboo grove and the superb collection of nymphea or water lilies that became a focal part of his work for decades to come.
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