Memorial Garden
Working Together to...
Remember, Honor, and Beautify
In 2002, KPB established a Memorial ~ Honorary Garden located at the Chamber of Commerce Building in Lee Newton Park. The garden is near the picnic area and provides a quiet, serene place to relax and reflect on your surroundings. Trees and shrubs have been planted in honor or memory of loved ones and a marble plaque reflects the name of the person. That same year, KPB erected a Pergola and placed benches in the garden area.
In 2015, the Memorial Garden was redesigned and the plaques were relocated to a new seating area.
In 2022, another significant reconstruction was begun – when you visit the park, please enjoy our progress and pardon evidence that the area is still under construction!
Do yo have a loved one that you'd like to honor with a marker in the Memorial Garden?
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The associated fee covers the cost of the engraved marker.
Our Partners for the 2022 Garden Renovation
Triple P Farm & Dirtworks
Triple P Farm & Dirtworks donated their labor and equipment to dig the new path foundations. They also hauled the marble gravel for the foundation and the path materials. Thank you Triple P for your incredible generosity!
Polycor
Polycor donated the crushed gravel we used to build a solid foundation for the reconstructed paths. Lee Newton Park has a history of flooding, so this solid foundation will help with drainage and structural stability. Thank you Polycor for your help with this community beautification project!
SouthScape
SouthScape has a long history of supporting KPB projects! For this path reconstruction, they provided the path material at cost. The material used should handle the abuse these paths will endure with the expected future floods in Lee Newton Park.
Here is the start of the next evolution of the Memorial and Honorary Garden
The renovation in the Memorial and Honorary Garden will be an on-going project through 2022 and into 2023. Watch our Calendar for upcoming programs and workshops as we expand the Edible Jasper Gardens!
Now that the paths are rebuilt, we’ll do some more clean-up around the pergola and in the seating area. In the Fall of 2022 or Spring of 2023, we will add more fruit around the pergola, plant herbs in the seating area, and plant the large new garden bed in the bend of the path.
Enjoy these photos of the path reconstruction! (They are in reverse order with the most recent first.)
Edible Jasper expands to Lee Newton Park! We planted this American Persimmon adjacent to the Memorial Garden…
…and we planted these 3 fig trees behind the pergola…
…a significant improvement!
The new garden bed will be planted in the coming months.
This area has a history of swampiness, so we filled the low spots with soil and will monitor during upcoming rains – once the water properly drains, the area will be seeded.
We mulched the sides to help the seeds set and to reduce the runoff while the fill dirt settles.
Water management and a park improvement – an excellent combo!
The new path!
We created a new garden bed in the low spot to both eliminate the pooling and to expand Edible Jasper’s space.
The path material filled the space between the marble edges.
SouthScape provided a blend of M10 and crusher run for durability and drainage.
We added a new curve in the path.
Dirt backfilled the edges to set them in place, and the area between was then ready for filling.
The marble edges were laid on the foundation.
The crushed marble was packed down.
The crushed marble will provide a solid foundation with excellent drainage.
Note the new foundation heading towards the Chamber building.
A pretty new path!
Polycor’s donated crushed marble was hauled to the path and spread.
Our mountains of crushed marble for the foundation and the path material.
Triple P dug a final section to prep the foundation.
Triple P donated the delivery of the donated gravel from Polycor.
After Triple P dug the paths, we prepped them for the crushed marble.
The path was redirected into a sweeping curve since the branch to the arbor was no longer needed.
The freshly dug path from the Chamber building.
The final section of path was dug.
Triple P dug the paths down so we could build a proper foundation.
Old landscape fabric was removed and the dirt relocated to address the park’s drainage challenges.
The marble edges were moved out of the way.
The original paths needed to be deconstructed.
This area in the bend of the path was low and held water when it rained.
Path material had washed out and weeds were taking over.
This became an unnecessary section of path – there was originally a fence dividing the park so the path to the arbor had been needed.
Area on the back side of the path that was consistently swampy.
A disturbed, unsettled, and unsightly path.
Installed in 2015 and flooded at least 3 times, the original path wasn’t constructed properly to handle that level of abuse.
