Wednesday, April 09, 2025

The flora and foliage of Warley Place

I shared my pictures of the beautiful daffodils of Warley Place the other day. This is an Essex Wildlife Trust site.  If you want to find it, you will need to travel from Brentwood station. It's a few miles so you can walk for about 50 minutes or drive. A bus will only take you so far.

I got a taxi from Brentwood station that cost me about £8.25 to Warley Place.  There was a volunteer tent asking for a suggested donation of £3 per person. Luckily, I scrabbled around in my purse and found the requisite amount.  
You can do a circular walk which is apparently about a mile (or a km?)

I'll share some pictures

In the rockeries and along a woodland path, there is a lot of Wild Garlic.  I was delighted to see it!
I loved this view with the different greens. You can see the woodland daffodils (not the field ones)

Here are the woodland daffodils.  So beautiful.

I spied some Turkey Fantail fungus. Not the most colourful ones I've seen but very soft and pretty.
Some beautiful Lungwort. I love the spotty leaves, the beautiful hues and the spiky sepals.
Some lingering Hellebores. i wish I had these ones in my garden. My Hellebores are more dull.
The old conservatory.
Delighted to be accompanied by this beautiful Robin.  Made me think of my Grandmother Mamgu as they lived not so far from this place.
Luscious green.
I learnt that this flower is called Scilla.
Not sure what this purple delight is but it is pretty. The leaves a gorgeous too!
Forget-Me-Nots.
Look at all that garlicky goodness!!!
The primroses remain....I think....or are they Primulas??

 Spring is the very best of seasons!

xx

9 comments:

  1. I have just been reading about Ellen Willmott, the owner and horticulturalist who lived at Warley Place. What a story!!

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  2. What a lovely place for a walk! I love that old conservatory.

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  3. Warley Place looks absolutely delightful and well worth a visit if we're ever in your neck of the woods.
    How sweet is that robin! We used to have Scilla and Lungwort in our garden but they both disappeared on us. The purple delight is gorgeous, I'm not sure what it is either. I might google lens it later. xxx

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  4. What a lovely walk! So great you enjoyed this.

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  5. Anonymous10:31 am

    The daffodils are lovely. There used to be fields of wild daffodils near us, but b***** selfish people dug up all the bulbs and took them home to their gardens. So now, no wild daffodils & probably they didn't flourish in the garden. Huzzah! (she says sarcastically) Love FD xx

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  6. What a great place to walk in springtime <3

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  7. What a beautiful place for a walk, the conservatory looks like an Ancient Greek ruin! xxx

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  8. Beautiful! I love daffodils, and robins.

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