6 days ago
- General
- Wall Street Journal
The Last Living Monet
Every winter, the head gardener at Claude Monet's garden in the tiny French village of Giverny sits down to a stack of seed catalogs—and braces for disappointment.
Jean-Marie Avisard knows he must grow at least 520,000 plants to re-create these historic grounds, but each year at least 10 seed varieties he selected the previous season will have disappeared.
