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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 people's gardens when they weren't 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.