Sister Suffragette

Sister Suffragette

• Sponsored by

  Cheshire Demolition, Station House Nursery, Allsisternsgo, Hilda Brown, National Dahlia Collection, First Women, Amy Bowers & others

• Silver Gilt medal winner

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  Designed by Janet Leigh
• Built by Harvey Schofield, Sally Hodgson
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  Current rating 3.4 (16 ratings)

A century ago 'Votes for Women' was a cry that resonated throughout the country and new tactics were employed to achieve equal rights for women.

The garden captures the vibrancy, energy and passion of those brave women through striking and thought-provoking features. The Sister Suffragette sculpture stands in a bed of bloodgrass (Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’) and Dahlia ‘Passionate’, and there is a representation of a prison cell where women were incarcerated for acts of violence such as smashing windows and burning postboxes. The cottage garden-style planting of purple, green and white reflects the colours adopted by the suffragettes.

A U-shaped path depicts the government’s U-turn in granting one million women the vote in March 1912, and the mirror reflects the path and highlights that women did not receive the vote on equal terms to men until 1928.