My Warley Place Nature Reserve vlog is now live!
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These gardens once belonged to renowned horticulturist Ellen Willmott (1858-1934), who moved into Warley Place in 1875. It was to become her lifelong home, and inherited wealth allowed her to indulge her passion for horticulture. Miss Willmott was considered as infuential as her contemporary, Gertrude Jekyll, and they were the only women to receive the Victoria Medal of Honour. The house was destroyed in 1939 and the area fell into serious disrepair, but strange and fascinating buildings that were once part of the gardens do pop up! The gardens have been managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust since 1977.
Ellen Willmott is believed to have cultivated over 100,000 species of plant, and this Edwardian garden was considered outstanding, and was even visited by royalty. This really is one of these places where you don't know what you're going to find, and I suspect that every time you come here you'll discover something new! There are lots of underground chambers; a conservatory; a gorge; several deep ponds; a walled garden and a headache tree.
Warley Place is considered to be the loveliest lost garden in England, so come into yet another of my secret gardens!
As you know, I will always be a writer before anything else, and I have blogged about Warley Place recently, link:-
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The Miss Elaineous
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