PRINCESS ANNE —This spring Princess Anne will be in bloom when the Flower Power community art project is installed at various historic locations in town.

Volunteers are in the final phase but could use additional hands to attach the more than a 1,000 handcrafted yarn and fabric flowers to the mesh that will be turned into banners rolled out of windows and down church steeples.

The idea comes from a church in England that during the coronavirus lockdown parishioners handcrafted flowers that when stitched to a long mesh were draped from the bell tower as a fundraiser.

Members of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church picked up the idea and last year started meeting to knit, crochet and fabricate unique colorful flowers of varying designs.

Ten individuals were joined by a local Girl Scout troop, and with each flower taking approximately 30 minutes, there’s already 500 volunteer hours estimated to be invested in this project.

Now the boxes and bags of flowers are slowly being emptied as the flowers are being attached with zip-ties and by hand-stitching to the long mesh. Ribbon is also being decoratively run through the mesh like a vine as well.

The completion date for these floral banners is early May but a lot of work is ahead. Volunteers are meeting in the north wing of Teackle Mansion on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. to attach the flowers to the mesh. No experience is necessary, and to participate contact the organizers at flowerpowerprincessanne@gmail.com.

The completed banners will be draped down the sides of prominent structures in town like St. Andrew’s bell tower and from Teackle Mansion, and a map will be created so visitors can see all of them.

Embedded in each banner will be Maryland and local symbols to create a kind of scavenger hunt for the viewer. There may be a Baltimore Oriole, the state bird, or a diamondback terrapin, the state reptile, or a skipjack, the state boat among the flowers, along with others.

A muskrat — in honor of Princess Anne’s New Year’s Eve Muskrat Dive — will also be included somewhere.

Main Street Manager Carrie Samis said the flower displays “will also connect people to local history and community nonprofits through QR codes which people can scan with their phones to learn more information.”

The banners are expected to be on full display in time for the first event in Princess Anne this spring, the annual Street Fest, set downtown on May 13.

— Main Street Manager Carrie Samis contributed to this story.