{"id":558,"date":"2025-07-03T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/?p=558"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:29:25","slug":"250-garden-at-heritage-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/2025\/07\/03\/250-garden-at-heritage-park\/","title":{"rendered":"250 Garden at Heritage Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-561\" src=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-before-and-after-2.jpg?version=833b456ba2baa3f795c0e562804aff7e\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-before-and-after-2.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-before-and-after-2-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-before-and-after-2-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-before-and-after-2-358x300.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sudbury Garden Club has designed and installed a garden in Sudbury\u2019s Heritage Park to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution. Located in Sudbury\u2019s historic town center, the new garden was installed in time for 2025 Independence Day celebration. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the garden at 299 Old Sudbury Road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Process and Plants<\/h2>\n<p>Sudbury Garden Club member Heather Halsey designed the garden. Preparation was accomplished through a no-dig sheet mulching technique that involves layering organic materials, first with cardboard followed by 9 yards of compost and then another 9 yards of leaf mulch over the compost to smother weeds and build soil.<\/p>\n<p>Sudbury Garden Club Civic Beautification members, Massachusetts Master Gardeners, and volunteers installed the following tree and shrubs in the garden:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Forest Pansy Eastern Redbud tree<\/li>\n<li>3 Oakleaf Hydrangea Ruby Slippers<\/li>\n<li>3 Fothergilla gardenii<\/li>\n<li>45 shade-loving perennials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Thank you<\/h2>\n<p>The Town thanks the Sudbury Garden Club for all their work in making this beautiful commemorative garden a reality for all to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all of the project sponsors and collaborators:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf National Garden Clubs Inc.<br \/>\n\u25cf Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts<br \/>\n\u25cf Massachusetts Master Gardeners<br \/>\n\u25cf Black Earth Compost<br \/>\n\u25cf Town of Sudbury DPW<br \/>\n\u25cf Town of Sudbury Park and Recreation<br \/>\n\u25cf Heather Halsey, Heather Garden Design<br \/>\n\u25cf Sustainable Sudbury<br \/>\n\u25cf Sudbury Historical Commission<br \/>\n\u25cf Sudbury Garden Club (Civic Beautification Committee)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-560\" src=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-photo-album.jpg?version=8afb0fdc90696ae5a386fe41dd2abb64\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-photo-album.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-photo-album-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-photo-album-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/400\/2025\/07\/250-garden-photo-album-358x300.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new garden is ready for all to enjoy at 299 Old Sudbury Road. Thank you to the Sudbury Garden Club. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/2025\/07\/03\/250-garden-at-heritage-park\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about 250 Garden at Heritage Park\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/sudbury250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}