N.Y.C. exhibition evokes Claude Monet's flower garden

NEW YORK — Claude Monet's beloved flower and water gardens in the north of France are world-famous. But for those unable to visit the artist's home, a trip to the Bronx over the next several months will offer a taste of Monet's indisputably radiant living masterpiece — a riotous display of color, plant variety, and landscape design."Monet's Garden" at the New York Botanical Garden evokes Monet's lush garden at Giverny, the impressionist's home from 1883 until his death in 1926. A passionate gardener who once declared, "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers," Monet found endless inspiration in his exuberant gardens. The water garden alone accounts for 250 paintings, including a series of monumental canvases, his Grandes Decorations, at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris. His flower garden is featured in at least 40 works.