Some of his most famous paintings were of his garden in Giverny, famous for its rectangular "Clos normand", with archways of climbing plants entwined around colored shrubs, and the water garden, formed by a tributary to the Epte, with the Japanese bridge, the pond with the water lily, the wisterias and the azaleas.
Leta 1890 je imel dovolj denarja za nakup hiše in zemljišča in se odločil ustvariti čudovite vrtove za potrebe slikanja.