Miss Willmott - Plantswoman

Miss Willmott:

My plants and my gardens come before anything in my life for me and all my time is given up working in one garden and another, and when it is too dark to see the plants themselves I read or write about them’,

Wat een tragedie:

"An abundance of accolades and medals, that’d put even the likes of Michael Phelps to shame, Willmott was one of this country’s most celebrated gardeners, yet she remains overlooked. Her house and garden were demolished long ago, and sadly with it so too, the evidence of her extraordinary planting, garden design, and (rare) collections of plants, shrubs and trees. Unfortunately, Willmott died fourteen years shy of the establishment of the first (RHS and National Trust) Committee for garden conservation and hence, Warley slipped through the net.

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Wat een schoonheid:

Note: The photographs taken by Ellen Willmott, were kindly provided by a private collector.