Friends of Ward-Meade

05/03/2025

Thank you to everyone that came out for our tulip sale. Your support is greatly appreciated. For better or worse we have plenty left over. Please come and help yourself to any dug tulips. They are around the Fillmore parking lot. Please consider dropping a donation in as you leave. There are donation boxes by the Clay gate or under the arbor entering the garden. Anything left by Monday will
Probably go to a compost pile so we would rather give them away then throw them away.

02/22/2025

Our new mailing address is
Friends of Ward-Meade
4011 SW 29th ST
Box 171
Topeka,KS 66614-4269

09/14/2024

Thank you to everyone that came to the dedication of Curt’s observation deck today. If you couldn’t make it come when you can and enjoy the fantastic work of our volunteers and Shawnee County staff. Our Asian Garden hasn’t looked better. And bring a quarter or two so you can keep our koi fat and sassy.

09/09/2024

Please join us this Friday as we honor the legacy of a long time volunteer and supporter of our site.

08/18/2024

Thanks to Sunflower Strings Trio for providing some great music. Thanks to Butch’s BBQ shack for some wonderful food. Thanks to our fantastic volunteers for giving their evening. Thanks to Shawnee County Parks and Rec for allowing us to have our event. And thanks to those that came and had a fun time.

08/17/2024

Thanks to our volunteers our inaugural picnic on the Prairie is open. We have some great music from the sunflower string trio and great food from Butchs BBQ shack

08/16/2024

We are a go for tomorrow night. Thanks to everyone that has worked so hard, from Shawnee County employees and volunteers that have spent the past several days clearing the debris, to our utility workers that just today restored electricity to the site.

We may be a CASH ONLY event, simply because the internet has yet to be restored. Maybe it will be by tomorrow night, maybe not. All we can do is ask for folks' understanding.

We hope to you tomorrow for a good old-fashioned good time.

07/31/2024

Years ago the Wards used to have a summer picnic and we'd like to see if we can revive that tradition.

Join us for an old fashioned good time on Saturday August 17th, 2024, 5-8pm.
Bring your picnic dinner or purchase food from Butch's BBQ Shack. Listen to live music from the Sunflower Strings Trio. Free watermelon slices and a watermelon seed spitting contest.

Our buildings will be open for tours, there will be handcar rides and horse shoe throwing demonstrations. Our drug store will be open and selling ice cream treats.

Admission is $5 per person, children 5 and under are free.

07/20/2024

What a cool find at our park. Thank you so much to whomever left their art there it is a wonderful addition.

06/09/2024

Thanks to our volunteers who spent a few hours today getting the main floor of the mansion all shiny and clean smelling. Our volunteers giving of themselves and their time is what makes the park what it is. We think Mary would be happy to see her home being taken care of.

05/07/2024

Tulips at Twilight has been nominated in two categories for the Best of Topeka Peoples Choice Awards. If you have time and are so inclined we would really appreciate it if you could vote for us.
https://cjonline.gannettcontests.com/2024-Topeka-Communitys-Choice-Awards/gallery/?group=485688

Thank you in advance for your time.

Vote for the top nominees in each category and be entered to win a gift card!

04/29/2024

And that’s a wrap. Thank you to everyone that came to our little event. Thank you to all the volunteers that made our event possible. Thank you to Shawnee county parks and rec for allowing us to have our event here and for all your support. Mother Nature made things interesting but we made the best of it. If you visit our park please be patient with our volunteers and staff who will be working hard to put things away over the next few days and we are already planning for 2025.