Governor's Community Achievement Award
Keep Sugar Land Beautiful (KSLB) was awarded the Governor's Community Achievement Award for our size category in 2002. The award (presented by Keep Texas Beautiful on behalf of the Governor) included a $130,000 grant to the City of Sugar Land for landscape improvements along a State right-of-way.
KSLB is working with the City to develop and implement a plan for landscape beautification at the recently rebuilt Dairy Ashford (Spur 41) intersection with Highway 59. Check back for more information as the design review progresses and the project begins.
Liberty Garden
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KSLB joined with Keep America Beautiful (KAB) affiliates across the country to create Liberty Gardens in their communities. KAB originated the Liberty Garden concept in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The KSLB Liberty Garden is located in Oyster Creek Park. The garden is intended to be a place of natural beauty and respite - an area that provides reassurance through the continuity and growth found in nature.
In addition to benches for seating, the garden includes roses, native trees, and bushes that will draw butterflies. When the garden is in full bloom, the colors are red, white and blue - a fitting image for a place dedicated to the spirit of America.
KSLB thanks all the sponsors and volunteers who worked in partnership to create the Liberty Garden. Specifically, the City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation staff, Duke Energy and Duke-Fluor Daniel who generously provided both funding and volunteers, the First Colony Community Association and the Sugar Land Garden Club. Companies that donated materials or services include Cantera Stoneworks, Houston Landscapes Unlimited, Certified Landscapes and Maintenance, Living Earth Technology and Southern Lawn Services.
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Tree Plantings
In the Spring of 2003, KSLB received a donation of several hundred Live Oak Trees from Enchanted Forest. We then coordinated with a Boy Scout and the City of Sugar Land to get the trees installed in Eldridge Park and Imperial Park. The scout was able to use the beautification work as his Eagle Scout project.
Wildflower Demonstration Garden
The Wildflower Demonstration Garden is located in Oyster Creek Park - positioned so that it can be seen from Highway 6 when the wildflowers are at their peak bloom. (As you enter the parking lot, look to your right. The embankment on the far side of the creek is the site of the Wildflower area). The original idea for the Garden came about as an Eagle Scoutproject in which KSLB and the City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation staff assisted. The City mows the area at the appropriate times to encourage wildflower growth.