Eleanor Perenyi - Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their ga

Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

- Eleanor Perenyi

topic: Wall, Flower, Eye, Squinting, Monet, Surrey, Jekyll, Gertrude, Poor Eyesight, Eyesight