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About Ellen Willmott
Ellen Ann Willmott was an English horticulturist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour, awarded to British horticulturists living in the UK by the society, in 1897. Willmott was said to have cultivated more than 100,000 species and cultivars of plants and sponsored expeditions to discover new species. Inherited wealth allowed Willmott to buy large gardens in France and Italy to add to the garden at her home, Warley Place in Essex. More than 60 plants have been named after her or her home, Warley Place.
Everything about Ellen Willmott →- Occupation
- botanist, gardener, horticulturist, botanical collector
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- August 19, 1858
- Died
- September 27, 1934