{"id":145292,"date":"2025-11-20T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145292\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:38:09","slug":"glastonbury-mural-gives-94-year-old-woman-dream-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145292\/","title":{"rendered":"Glastonbury mural gives 94-year-old woman &#8216;dream garden&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 94-year-old woman says a huge mural painted on the side of her house gives her a &#8220;dream garden&#8221; that she &#8220;doesn&#8217;t need to look after&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Muriel Baker, from Meare near Glastonbury in Somerset, had her wall transformed into a countryside scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She cannot manage the weeding or watering needed for a garden, but this option lets her feel as though she&#8217;s sitting in one while enjoying a coffee or tea, she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It is the second mural she has had painted on her house, which she says &#8220;attracts people from all over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Baker told BBC Radio Somerset: &#8220;I&#8217;ve not got any garden myself, I can&#8217;t do any gardening and I thought wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have a garden on the wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The \u00a32,000 mural features her favourite things \u2013 flowers, birds, and butterflies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a lot of people come and look at it and they really enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Local artist Jon Minshull painted a farmhouse scene on a separate wall at Ms Baker&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In total he has completed nearly 30 murals in the area, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0kx8vhl\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">including a giant giraffe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;That one required four stages of scaffolding,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It usually takes about a week to complete a house-sized wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 94-year-old woman says a huge mural painted on the side of her house gives her a &#8220;dream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-145292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}