Miss Willmott of Warley Place: Her Life and Her Gardens by Audrey Le Lievre

By Audrey Le Lievre

Born in 1858 to a filthy rich family members Ellen Willmott owned 3 gardens, in England, France and Italy, and hired 100 and 4 gardeners. She combined with royalty and her identify used to be linked to the best gardeners of her time, Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson and E. A. Bowles.

In 1894 she joined the Royal Horticultural Society and in 1897 she used to be one of many first sixty recipients (and one among purely girls) to obtain the Victoria medal of honour. Warley backyard in Spring and Summer, a e-book of photos, was once released in 1909 and in 1912 she released The Genus Rosa. within the comparable 12 months she was once provided the grande m�daille Geoffroi St Hilaire from the Soci�t� d'Acclimatation de France and in 1924 got the Dean gap medal from the nationwide Rose Society. An said and widespread specialist in her box Ellen Willmott died in 1934 elderly seventy six, by myself and approximately bankrupt.

First released in 1980 this conscientiously researched biography is an engaging account of a lady who was once notorious in her time and whose mark can nonetheless be visible at the horticultural international at the present time. Miss Willmott of Warley Place is republished to rejoice the a hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of Ellen Willmott's birth.

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