Without letting them becoming an obsession for me, I have become quite interested in them as I planted some in the pond which I created in my garden a few years ago. I don't know much about gardening (I wouldn't want you to get the wrong idea, I'm a city-boy, you know) but I've always loved having big aquariums and having a pond with Japanese koï fish was a fantasy I've had the privilege to achieve... Having nympheas inside was simply the next step. And where else could I get my nympheas from than from the company created in 1875 by Latour-Marliac, the man who created the first European colored hybrids which Monet discovered right in front of the Eiffel Tower (during its inauguration in 1889) on the spot where you now find the Trocadero gardens?

My pond - June 2015

My pond - August 2015

I flatter myself (among other things) to take rather good pictures with a small compact camera but waterlilies are not only difficult to capture on canvas but also with a camera. In bright sunlight they look magnificient but they always turn out over-exposed. I will try to take better pictures in the future with a better camera.

Otherwise, I don't show pictures of the whole pond because:

1) that would be too pretentious of me (I do have limits, you know).

2) we don't know each other well enough (yet)...

Otherwise, if you like Monet's water lily paintings, you've been to the Orangerie, right?