Rusiñol's burgeoning success as a painter enabled him to concentrate almost completely on the subject closest to his heart, Spain's gardens and landscapes. From 1900 he travelled widely across the regions of Spain, painting in Gerona, Horta, Cataluña, Valencia, Ibiza, Mallorca, Játiva, La Granja and Aranjuez. Wherever he went, Rusiñol recorded the sometimes domestic, at other times enigmatic, forms and rich vegetation of the shrubbery, orchards, flowerbeds and arboretums that he discovered.
