Monet felt more liberated to experiment with technique ­ to use larger canvases and rely less on constantly checking a motif ­ because, in his garden, he could control nature. Here, a motif was not the result of an accident but, rather, the result of deliberate organization: Monet designed the flower beds and coordinated the colors - Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden, 1866.