Every year on Memorial Day, we take live flowers to the cemetery for passed family members.?
Although they are beautiful, those flowers look terrible within a day or so. I'm not a fan of plastic or silk flowers at the cemetery. Any suggestions?
You might ask the caretakers of the cemetery in question if they allow you to plant flowers (like a rose that will bloom every month. My Mom has several planted outside our house and they really are beautiful. She lets them grow during the winter months and in the Spring, she cuts them back to just above any green that may be showing, and then they start to grow and produce blooms again. We've had them at least 5 years now, and they are still gorgeous every year), even if you have to put a little fence around them --otherwise they might get mowed down when the cemetery's grass is cut.
Or, get what they call a shepherd's pole that has a hook at the top where a planter can be hung. Then you can plant small flowers in it.
PS--Why just do it for family members who have passed on? You or your children could "adopt" the grave of someone whose family has moved away or who have also passed on. There are thousands of graves--including those of past military servicemen/women-- who go without flowers simply because people don't care. I adopted the grave of a lady buried in the same cemetery as my grandparents, and for 10 years after she died, she didn't even have a tombstone. No one EVER left any flowers at her gravesite. All you could see was the tiny marker put there by the cemetery, and after 10 years it was barely readable. The sad part was she had left all her money to a niece, on the stipulation that part of it be used for a tombstone. I had to threaten the caretaker, in a roundabout way, that if the niece in question didn't love her aunt enough to do this for her that I would buy one. The next year, I saw a brand new tombstone at this lady's grave. I didn't know this lady from Adam--as the saying goes--but I still leave flowers at her grave every year. You'd be surprised at how good it makes you feel.
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