The Magic of Monet's Garden: His Planting Plans and Color Harmonies (Hardcover)

by Derek Fell (Author)

Editorial Reviews

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In essence a lesson on how to design an artistic garden. (National Garden Clubs, Inc. 200711)

Glorious ... a delicious treatise on the mechanics of this famous painter's garden. (Scripps Howard Wire Story 200712)

Lush with images.... Artists and those who appreciate beauty ... will enjoy some time meandering in Claude Monet's garden, (Carolyn Leitch Globe and Mail 20071026)

This recent offering from Fell is one to treasure.... [It] will appeal to photographers and to gardeners. (Canadian Camera 200712)

Fell reveals [Monet's] breathtaking color harmonies at Giverny and [shows] how to scale down his ideas for the home garden. (The National Post 20071201)

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 20071215)

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 20071231)

Details the painter's gardening techniques, structural accents and favorite plants, with beautiful photographs and a number of helpful diagrams. (Nancy Schoeffler The Hartford Courant 20071207)

This beauty will make your imagination soar. (Helen Halpenny The Lanark Era 20071204)

This beauty will make your imagination soar. (Helen Halpenny Review-Mirror (Westport, ON) 20071220)

Delicious ... glorious.... The Magic of Monet's Garden will soon be bruised and battered. (Maureen Gilmer Scripps Howard News Service 20081208)

What a great gift this would be for lovers of art, history and garden design. (Marianne Binetti Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20071208)

I really enjoyed this book.... it gives insight into Monet's thinking and his love of Giverney, the garden he created. (Ian Munt Sudbury Star 20071218)

Fell offers a loving portrait of [Giverny], with glossy pictures and reproductions of Monet's paintings. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 20071025)

Offers a window into the mind of one of the ... most gifted flower gardeners of the 20th century. (St. Petersburg Times )

My favourite this year ... Not as good as a plane ticket, maybe -- but a lot cheaper. (Mary Fran McQuade Beach Metro Community News )

[Fell's] photographs are the next best thing to visiting the living canvas that the famous Impressionist created. (Jessica Damiano Newsday (NY) )

Product Description

"Gardening was something I learned in my youth. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers"
- Claude Monet

Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) created a magnificent five-acre garden that he considered to be his greatest artistic achievement. It was restored in 1980 and is now the most visited garden of its size in the Western world. With its spectacular color combinations and distinctive structural elements, the Monet garden at Giverny, France, inspires the dreams of thousands of gardeners.

Award-winning garden writer and photographer Derek Fell has visited Giverny many times and always admired the beauty of its plantings and the subtle balance of colors. After years of carefully studying Monet's design and plantings, he shares the artist's secrets. In The Magic of Monet's Garden, Fell reveals Monet's breathtaking color harmonies and describes how the artist "painted" his living masterpiece. He guides the reader on how to scale down Monet's ideas for the home garden, with attention to:

• Understanding the laws of colors
• Building color harmonies
• Creating innovative combinations
• Recognizing the power of monochromatic plantings
• Using black in the garden
• Working with structure and form
• Building rhythm and surprise
• Capitalizing on sunlight and shadow
• Incorporating water features
• Attracting birds and butterflies.

With 175 color photographs and illustrations and a dozen detailed planting plans, The Magic of Monet's Garden will inspire and instruct home gardeners to create their own versions of Giverny.

(20071023)

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• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Firefly Books (August 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1554072778
• ISBN-13: 978-1554072774
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 9.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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