The Magic of Monet's Garden: His Planting Plans and Color Harmonies
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Review Gardening was French impressionist painter Monet's other passion. His garden at Giverney is featured in his paintings (e.g. the waterlilies series) and is a popular tourist destination. An award-winning garden designer/photographer offers a tour of the famous garden with some 200 lush color photographs, a landscape plan, biographical background, and details on Monet's favorite plants. The volume includes a Monet chronology (1840-1926), and information on visiting Giverney and other gardens and noteworthy places in Normandy. (Book News)Because Fell is a gardener, not an art historian, his beautiful photographs are blessed with captions that actually identify the plants pictured, sometimes down to the cultivar name. (Marianna Greene Dayton Daily News 2009-08-21)Here are more than 200 colour photographs and a dozen planting plans, and secrets for creating the luminescent quality of [Monet's] gardens. (The Globe and Mail 2007-12-15)You'll be inspired by Monet's color combinations ... for your own masterpiece.... When you're done you can boast to the neighborhood that you keep the Monet in the yard. (Style at Home 2007-12-31)Accompanied by beautiful illustrations that include colorful planting plans, drawings, and photographs, the text is in essence a lesson on how to design an artistic garden. (National Garden Clubs, Inc.)Glorious ... [Fell's] lifetime in horticulture coupled with a first class understanding of color has rendered a delicious treatise on the mechanics of this famous painter's garden. (Scripps Howard Wire Story)Lush with images.... This book will be useful for any gardener who wants to understand how to combine plants and colours to create eye-catching effects.... But artists and those who appreciate beauty, -- even if they never pick up a trowel -- will enjoy some time meandering in Claude Monet's garden, (Carolyn Leitch Globe and Mail 2007-10-26)This beauty will make your imagination soar. (Helen Halpenny Review-Mirror (Westport, ON) 2007-12-20)Offers a window into the mind of one of the great impressionist painters of the 19th and 20th centuries and one of the most gifted flower gardeners of the 20th century. (Joel M. Lerner The Washington Post 2007-12-08)This recent offering from Fell is one to treasure. ... This book will appeal to photographers and to gardeners who can adapt Monet's concepts to add beauty to their garden. (Canadian Camera) Read more About the Author Derek Fell is an award-winning garden designer and photographer whose articles are published worldwide. He is the author of more than one hundred gardening books and calendars, including Firefly Books' Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants and Encyclopedia of Garden Design and Structure. Derek Fell lives in Pennsylvania. Read more
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Derek Fell wrote and illustrated three books about Monet and his gardens at Giverny, but this is my favorite. Fell's in depth and educated writing about Claude Monet and the development of his gardens at Giverny, as well as his incredible photography throughout, make this a exceptional book. It's a valuable addition to any gardner's library.
