Special optional events include field trips, guest presenters, social gatherings, museum visits and more. Philanthropy
The Thursday Garden Club contributes to the following;
• Hop Brook Protection Association
• New England Wildflower Society
• Sudbury Valley Trustees
Sudbury Civic Beautification Plantings:
• Grinnell Park
• Haskell Field sign and Children’s Park
• Goodnow Library Children’s Gar
den
• Traffic Islands throughout Sudbury
Virginia Thurston Healing Garden
Harvard, MA
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
• Scholarship for Senior(s) Planning to Pursue Horticultural or Environmental Studies
• ($1,000.00 each)
Club Purpose and Projects
PURPOSE
Since the club’s founding in 1951, its purpose remains
to perpetuate and stimulate a fundamental interest in horticulture, conservation, flower arranging, and related subjects. CONTINUING CLUB PROJECTS:
Civic Projects in Town of Sudbury:
Garden Design and Maintenance of Traffic Islands
Concord Road/ Old Lancaster Road
Hudson Road/ Route 27
Fairbanks Road/ Route 27
Morse Road/ Mossman Road
Moore Road / Dutton Road
Fairbanks Road/ Hudson Road
Peakham Road/ Route 20
Dutton Road/ Garrison Road
Peakham Road/ French Road
Peakham Road/ Hudson Road
Town Center Holiday Decorations
Hosmer House Holiday Decorations
Arbor Day Planting—varies from year to year
Town Daffodil Trail Development
Memorial Day Planting—Grinnell Park
Grinnell Park Spring and Fall Clean –Up
Goodnow Public Library Projects:
Maintenance of the Children’s Garden
Floral Accents at the Reference Desk, second floor
Workshops for Children through the Children’s Library Program
Scholarship Project:
Scholarship for Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Senior interested in pursuing horticultural or environmental studies. Fund Raising Projects:
Annual Daffodil Bulb Sales
The daffodil, a symbol of the Thursday Garden club, became a spring representation of Sudbury when the late Poppy Walker, a former president of the Club, had the idea of creating a daffodil trail to line the streets of Sudbury. Over the course of the past 18 years, the Thursday Garden Club has planted over 12,000 bulbs at town center, police and fire stations, and other public spaces. We now offer the bulbs to residents of Sudbury and elsewhere to beautify their gardens and help extend our daffodil trail.
