The French landscape is full of beautiful gardens, circumcised, symmetrical and overcrowded with lavender bushes, but only a few are as iconic and revered as the late Impressionist painter, Claude Monet's. The former House of Monet in the pretty village of Giverny is only 45 minutes away with the center of Central Paris and is literally something from one of its paintings. While the house itself is breathtaking, a charming French country house, which was dressed with ivy, painted in soft pink with green shutters, his colorful gardens have inspired so many of his famous works of art that tourists flock here to see them.
Monet's gardens over 2.5 acres are divided into two different rooms: the walled garden of Normandy and in the water garden. In late spring and summer, the walled garden is brought to life with living yellow, pink, red and blue flowers, which line its gravel paths. In the meantime, the water garden inspired by Japanese, which is famous for its arched bridges and Lily ponds, offers the Monet's “Bridge Over a Tond of Water Lilies” works of art with his subdued blues, pink, green and purple. These thoughtful combinations of color and texture define the aesthetic romantic French garden and with the right plant selection, it is surprisingly easy to replicate Claude Monet's French Giverny Garden at home.
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Selection of a monet-inspired color palette
Garden path with orange and pink flowers in Monet's garden – Kari Ahlers/Shutterstock
In order to create a color palette that is worthy of a French garden for the landscape, you first have to think like a painter. With the gardens of Monets, the impressionist approached with the eye of a painter and considered how the colors would complement each other, how they could create a feeling of depth and how every color would interact with the changing light all day.
In this sense, take into account lively colors such as red, oranges, yellow and pink for central, sunnier areas of your garden or all bold tones that stop in direct sunlight. Think about: Layered Coral Tulp with scarlet red poppy flowers and bright yellow Doronicen next to orange steps. Around the edges of your garden or in more shady areas of your garden, you opt for a softer palette made of cool blue, purple and green. In these areas, Monet preferred soft blue clematis, gentle lavender-sweet peas and powder blue forgetting.
Layer like a landscape painting
Monet's garden in France filled with lively flowers and a house in the background – Rusm/Getty Images
Another thing to take into account if you select the colors for your French garden inspired by the landscape is how you have your plants so that you can flow into structured levels in a natural way. They could start with high, dramatic flowers in the back, such as blue and purple dolphinia, violet iris and dark pink Hollyhocks, followed by plants with medium height in rouge-pink peonies, purple foxglove and peach hinge.
In the front of the flower bed you can have your bright colors for more drama, and lively spring pears are well suited for this or choose the damped colors with dusty pink and light peach blossoms or add a silver leaves like lamb ear to contrast the bright colors. Remember that it is best to add the colors as the contrast, as this enables French landscape design to see how we look in real life.
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