Maintaining Monet’s Gardens For Half A Million Visitors A Year

Giverny head gardener James Priest: “Monet’s garden would not have had concrete paths, for instance. But they are a necessity today. You have to meander between the purist line and the practical one. Take the irises. They are all over his paintings. But look at them now. They are nubs. So, you need other flowers blooming to keep that Impressionist feeling along those paths.”