THIS ISSUE
Back in my uni years when I was studying fine arts, I loved the early 20th-century impressionists, chief among them that French master of colour and light, Claude Monet. So when Jennifer Stackhouse suggested waterlilies as her ornamentals feature for this issue, I went trawling through Monet’s many waterlily paintings. How he must have loved his lily ponds in his Giverny gardens to have captured them in the changing light over and over. Waterlilies certainly are exquisite and their foliage is almost as graceful as the flowers themselves. Still around the pond, Claire Bickle continues her showcase of edible water plants and does a roundup of her perennial herb picks for the heat. Speaking of herbs, we have a great DIY project especially for those who have limited space for a…