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Les Colombières: Ferdinand Bac's house-and-garden masterpiece on the Riviera

HINT OF HAUNTED HOLLY!

Miss Ellen Willmott, an erudite plants-woman, would scatter invasive annual sea holly, Eryngium giganteum, on people s gardens when they weren t looking.

History of Boyles Court and the Lescher family in Brentwood

Here, our Brentwood history columnist Sylvia Kent looks at the origins of the Boyles Court mansion and the life of its occupiers, the Lescher family.

Wealthy heiress' biography reveals how a lust for plants left her nearly penniless

When she was 13, the Willmotts moved from London to Warley Place in Essex, a Queen Anne mansion surrounded by 33 acres of land. Here the lively and sociable Ellen led a charmed life.

Sabotage and pistols - was Ellen Willmott gardening's 'bad girl'?

History has portrayed horticulturalist Ellen Willmott as a rude saboteur - but new evidence suggests otherwise.