Mother Meres: The Mother of all Garden Fairies. Mother Meres was part of a group the first non-native settlers to make their home in Tarpon Springs in the 1880s and became one of Tarpon Springs’ most admired women. Mother Meres was Pinellas County Florida’s original ‘Garden Fairy’—spreading her love of…
On Thursday, September 3oth and Friday, October 1st, 2010, Mother Meres mural was installed! Click to view the video of the installation process: The mural and adjacent dumpster surround transformation is a joint project of The Garden Fairies and the Greater Tarpon Springs Chamber of Commerce. At the upcoming dedication…
How long does a big mosaic mural take? A long ?‡#% time! When we first envisioned doing a mural, we considered a hands-on community process suggested by Garden Fairy Heather. She estimated it would take a long weekend. Instead we ended up doing a massively-multi-media mural that will end up…
Our long-time-coming Tarpon Mural project is a go! The Why and the How We have been involved in a planning process to do a mural in Tarpon Springs for three years. Part of the time was spent raising funds many through our garden tour last year and the other time…