Making a splash: Get your feet wet this summer - put in a pond. Lynda Hallinan follows Claude Monet's lead and falls in love with waterlilies

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Claude Monet never set out to paint waterlilies; he simply wanted to admire them in the big pond at the bottom ofhisgardenatGivernyin France. But the rest, as they say, is history. The last time one of Monet's waterlily paintings came up for sale, atSotheby's in London six months ago, it fetched 18.5 million (approx. NZ48 million dollar). Few of us could ever afford that, but luckily you can stil I go to Giverny to see the real thing. (Entry to Monet's garden costs 10 dollar. For details, see the website www.fondation-monet.com.)