Ellen Willmott News Today

RHS to formally honour Ellen Willmott following historically strained relationship - from HortWeek

Of all the style propositions presented on the runway for 2024, however, there were two trends that truly felt, well, groundbreaking.

Spetchley Park Gardens will appear on Gardeners World this week.

UK expert CIAR BYRNE picks out her top page-turners for gardeners, including Monty Dons The Gardening Book and Alan Titchmarshs Chatsworth: The Gardens And The People Who Made Them.

A rare 1900 Swiss miniature silver carriage clock that was once owned by one of the most significant female horticulturists, plant researchers and pla

A rare 1900 Swiss miniature silver carriage clock that was once owned by one of the most significant female horticulturists, plant researchers and plant photographers of the 19th and early 20th centuries is to be offered at auction in September. Leighton Gillibrand, Head of Dreweatts Clocks, Barometers and Scientific Instruments department: "This exquisite little timepiece

Historical first as women gardeners make up 58 per cent of designers at the Chelsea Flower Show, putting men in the minority

Miss Ellen Willmott, an erudite plants-woman, would scatter invasive annual sea holly, Eryngium giganteum, on peoples gardens when they werent looking.

Here, our Brentwood history columnist Sylvia Kent looks at the origins of the Boyles Court mansion and the life of its occupiers, the Lescher family.

When she was 13, the Willmotts moved from London to Warley Place in Essex, a Queen Anne mansion surrounded by 33 acres of land. Here the lively and sociable Ellen led a charmed life.