Garden is a picture

A COUNTRY garden has been drawing admirers after its owner Muriel Baker skipped the nuisance of watering and weeding and had a mural painted on her home instead.

- BY FILIPA GASPAR

Muriel, 94, said her age meant she would not be able to maintain a living garden so hired artist Jon Minshull to turn her walls into trees, roses and even butterflies.

She said: "I can't garden at my age. I thought how nice it would be to have a garden out on the wall so I can look outside and see a garden without doing any gardening.