In the height of summer, dense and verdant greenery explodes into the deeply saturated magentas, violets and ochre yellows of the North. Colour itself seems to be grown here, a unique and vibrant palette coaxed by the dark, rich soils and primordial rays of Normandy. George Clemenceau once described the garden as a subject of ‘unquenchable joy’, and Monet himself referred to it as his ‘most beautiful masterpiece’.