Annual Mercer Arboretum Garden Party
According to the Mercer Arboretum & Botanic Gardens their story began with Thelma and Charles Mercer, who bought 14.5 acres of wild woods alongside Cypress Creek in 1949. The only opening in the wooded land was a small burned area. Over the next 24 years, the Mercers created a garden paradise despite floods, droughts, and nature’s other familiar ravages.
