Posts Tagged ‘Monet’
November 17, 2020 Ten Ways to Rewild, Solway Moss, William Barton, William Caparne, Archibald Lampman, The Garden Chef by Phaidon Editors, and Queen Charlotte
Today we remember the momentous bursting of a peat bog in Scotland. We’ll also learn about the botanist nephew of Benjamin Smith Barton. We’ll honor a British Iris enthusiast and painter. We salute the poet known as the Canadian Keats. We’ll Grow That Garden Library™ with a cookbook for gardeners. And then we’ll wrap things…
Read MoreRemembering Painter and Gardener Claude Monet: His Funeral, His Friend, and His Love of Nature
“Claude said, ‘I am following Nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.'” December 5, 1926 On this day, the impressionist painter Claude Monet died at 86. Claude had insisted on a simple funeral, and as such, his coffin was draped with plain black cloth. But his…
Read MoreMonet’s Passion by Elizabeth Murray
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Monet’s Passion by Elizabeth Murray Today’s book is such a good one. I need to tell you that this is the 20th Anniversary revised edition. When Elizabeth’s book first came out, it was an instant bestseller and deservedly so! Elizabeth Murray was uniquely qualified to write this book…
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