Camellia 'Kate Sheppard' was named after the suffragette who led the charge to get Kiwi women the right to vote. In 1893 Kate Sheppard we...Read Morent to Parliament in Wellington and presented supporters with white camellias to wear in their buttonholes. The suffragettes won their campaign, and on September 8 that year, the bill was passed by 20 votes to 18 making New Zealand the first country in the world to give women the vote.
In 1992, Karen Eagles and Donna Glendining approached camellia breeders Alf Gamlin and his daughter Viv Joyce about naming a white bloomed bush after the leading suffragette. Alf had the name registered with the New Zealand Camellia Society, and Viv grew 300 of the white bushes in Taranaki, New Zealand.
Camellia 'Kate Sheppard' was named after the suffragette who led the charge to get Kiwi women the right to vote. In 1893 Kate Sheppard we...Read More