The Thursday Garden Club of Sudbury

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The Thursday Garden Club sponsors monthly meetings including flower arranging, horticulture, landscape design, and town beautification.

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 Garden

• 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.

10/26/2026

Hope everyone is enjoying these glorious fall days. We're already prepping for the holidays with bow making, but let's all enjoy Halloween and Thanksgiving first! We'll be ready to decorate town center in early December. 🎀

10/24/2026

This is a great weekend to get those bulbs in the ground, we need the hope of Spring

10/24/2026

Beautiful and creative flower show is going on at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill at Tower Hill through Sunday. And the fall foliage in the gardens is spectacular..Thanks to Joy for sharing her knowledge on flower shows.

10/21/2026

We had a great time last week planting daffodils in the Library Children's Garden with Sudbury's budding gardeners.

10/20/2026

Some advice from Wild Birds Unlimited to support our pollinators.
Help Birds by Leaving the Leaves
Every fall, something remarkable happens as leaves, pine needles, and garden debris settle to the ground. While this traditionally motivates us to drag out the rake, we encourage you to leave things be this season. The organic matter builds critical habitat that shelters wildlife and prepares your yard for spring.

We're proud to support the National Wildlife Federation® Leave the Leaves Month, and we hope you'll join us. Now through October 31, 2026, NWF is offering Wild Birds Unlimited customers 10% OFF Certified Wildlife Habitat® certifications with promo code WBU10.

Whether your yard is blanketed in leaves or carpeted in pine needles, the same principle applies: resist the urge to clear it all away. Here's what's happening under that natural layer:

Butterflies and moths need it. Most species overwinter as an egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, or adult. Leaf litter and garden debris are their shelter. Remove it too soon and you lose next year's pollinators before they ever take flight.

Bumble bees depend on it. At summer's end, mated queen bumble bees burrow just an inch or two into the soil to hibernate. A thick layer of leaves or needles is the difference between surviving winter and not.

Birds, frogs, lizards, and turtles use it too. Ground cover of any kind creates a living ecosystem that keeps pests in check and pollination thriving come spring.

Your soil benefits as well. Fallen leaves and pine needles act as a natural mulch, suppressing weeds and slowly enriching the soil as they break down.

If you do need to tidy up in spring, just wait until late in the season so the life you've protected has a chance to emerge.

Then spread the word! Share this with your community. The more yards that join the movement, the bigger the difference we make together.

10/19/2026

L.M. Montgomery said in her book Anne of Green Gables, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” Thursday Garden Club member Mary E. agrees. Stop by the Goodnow Library second floor to see her arrangement that will surely warm your heart.

10/14/2026

Join us tomorrow, Oct 15th, to plant daffodils at the Children's Garden at the library. Register at goodnowlibrary.org/events open to children 5-12 years old.

10/05/2026

Fall is upon us. Cheers to October, a month of growth, change and endless possibilities! Stop by the second floor at Goodnow Library to enjoy the Ikebana arrangement created by Thursday Garden Club members Joy D.

09/27/2026

Thanks to our members for complenting quilts with flowers at the Art of the Quilt Show this weekend

09/24/2026

Check out our bulb sale a the Quiltiing Show this weekend at LSRHS or at the Apple Fest at the The Wayside Inn on October 3rd. You can also purchase bulbs online and pick them up the weekend of October 3rd at this site

The Thursday Garden Club will be offering Daffodil, Tulip and Hyacinth bulbs for pick-up on October 4th on Town Hall steps.

Address

Sudbury, MA

Website

https://www.gcfm.org/thursday-garden-club-sudbury

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