Monet would have been satisfied. He would have watched everything greedily. The daffodils have just come out. The tulips are early because the winter has not been harsh. They mix with forget-me-nots in the clumps facing the house with green shutters, where the prunus and cherry trees bloom. For the explosion of the magnolias, this trumpet blow, which usually welcomes the first visitors of the year, is already over. Claude Monet's estate in Giverny (Eure), bequeathed by his son Michel to the Academy of Fine Arts, always reopens in spring, a celebration that garden lovers never miss.
This time, under the sun, the show is given without spectators. Only birds will see azaleas and wallflowers. The gardeners, all present, but without the volunteers and trainees who usually come from all over the world to train here, tenderly observe the Japanese peonies which are in bud. Following the instructions of Hugues Gall, director of the Claude Foundation
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