Willmott, Ellen

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Willmott, Ellen

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Listing last updated on Sat Apr 2025

Warley Place
Brentwood, Essex
United Kingdom

Ellen Willmott (August 19, 1858 Heston, Middlesex - September 27, 1934), English horticulturist who cultivated more than 100'000 species of plants. She sponsored plant expeditions, including one by E. H. Wilson in 1904, when Rosa willmottiae was discovered. Her garden at Warley Place is now a nature reserve.

[From Lyon horticole, November 1934, pp. 199:] Obituary ...Miss Willmott possédait, dans le Comté d’Essex, un des plus remarquables jardins de l’Angleterre. Durant toute sa vie, elle consacra la plus grande partie de sa fortune à l’Horticulture et elle avait réussi à créer, dans sa propriété de Warley, où j’eus le plaisir d’être plusieurs fois son hôte, un ensemble de collections de plantes comme on n’en voit qu’en Angleterre.