Self-seeding: foxgloves have taken over Warley Place, mingling with more exotic plants and crumbling ruins Credit: Photo: Richard Barklem A small colony of Eryngium giganteum 'Miss Willmott’s Ghost’ ...
The March issue of Essex Life promised an article on "cultivating Miss Willmott's legacy at Warley Place". Miss Willmott is, of course, Ellen Willmott, known to all gardeners by plants named for her, ...
Ellen Willmott was born in 1858 - a contemporary of Gertrude Jekyll. She's had over 60 plants named after her or her home Warley Place, near Brentwood in Essex. Her house is now just a ruin but there ...