Forgotten Women Gardeners- Miss Willmott’s Ghosts

The Gardens of Ellen Ann Willmott through her own lens with Sandra Lawrence.
Horticulturalist, musician, botanist and polymath, Miss Ellen Willmott created three world-class gardens in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. None remain in the state in which she would have known them and two – at Warley Place in Essex and Tresserve in the French Alps - were destroyed after her death in 1934. Thanks to another of Willmott’s obsessions, however, we can at least glimpse into her world. We are only just beginning to understand the full extent of Ellen Willmott’s photography - which was both wide-ranging and high quality - and her published material represents a very small part of her output. This talk will explore Willmott’s gardens through her own images, many of which are newly discovered, discussing her techniques and comparing what she captured with what is left today.

Time: 10:00 GMT

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