Sabotage and pistols - was Ellen Willmott gardening's 'bad girl'?
History has portrayed horticulturalist Ellen Willmott as a rude saboteur - but new evidence suggests otherwise.
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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, horticulture's 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 England's heritage at-risk register.