Featured Garden of the Week: Monet Garden
Posted September 1, 2009 by Sarada Krishnan, Director of Horticulture
“Then all of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was. I took up my palette. Since then I have hardly had any other subject.” Claude Monet, 1924
Built in 1999, the inspiration for the creation of the Monet Garden was the “Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums” exhibit at the Denver Art Museum which included five paintings by Impressionist landscape painter Claude Monet (1840 – 1926). Monet was also a great gardener and at his home in Giverny, France, he grew formal beds of flowers and fruit trees and built an elaborate water garden, from which he drew inspiration and spent 20 years of his life painting waterlilies.
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