French Heat Wave Fries Flowers at Monet Gardens in Giverny

The recent heat waves that have set France abroil—shuttering museums, sparking wildfires, and sending citizens plunging into the Seine—have taken their toll on the famed gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny in Normandy. Among the casualties are the thousands of nasturtiums directly descended from those planted by the Impressionist more than a hundred years ago. Lining the gardens’ central […]