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History has portrayed horticulturalist Ellen Willmott as a rude saboteur - but new evidence suggests otherwise.

She booby-trapped her prize plants and sabotaged the gardens of her rivals. Yet, says Kate Thompson, horticultures original bad girl was tragically misunderstood

Sylvia Kent, our Brentwood history columnist, looks at the history of Countess Tasker, Brentwood Horticultural Society and Middleton Hall.

Miss Willmott of Warley Place: Her Life and Her Gardens by Lievre, Dr. Audrey Le at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0571116221 - ISBN 13:  9780571116225 - Faber & Faber - 1980 - Hardcover

The cottage of 19th Century poet William Blake is one of 130 deteriorating venues that have been added to Historic Englands heritage at-risk register.

William Blake wrote the lyrics to the hymn at the cottage in West Sussex in the 1800s.

Today’s Object of the Week is an Edwardian rock garden, which is undergoing an extensive restoration and will be open to the public in April. WHEN visitors return to one of the north’s most famous gardens in April, they will get the first rare-plant-filled glimpse of the major restoration of a historic Edwardian rock garden – thought to be one of the largest of its kind in the UK. Newby Hall’s expansive rock garden, boasting a waterfall, hidden nooks and even a miniature aquaduct, i...