The best artists' gardens to visit, from Cecil Beaton to Claude Monet
Cecil Beaton wore many outlandish hats in his time. He was a photographer of high society, including royalty, as well as war. He designed sets and costumes for theatre, ballet and film. He was a writer, illustrator, painter and interior designer. He was decadent, boho, astute, difficult and brilliant.
But can you really see him weeding? Well, welcome to my rose-laden arbour, as he might have said. A new exhibition at the Garden Museum in London is the first to give us Beaton the gardener — in a still stylish straw gardening hat (on display). He's out in the midday sun, if not weeding and planting, then dreaming up extravagant beds of flowers of all sizes and colours, although his favourites were white.
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