Our local cemetery had a "no artificial decorations" rule because it doesn't allow them to mow efficiently . However, if real plants and flowers are used, they just get mowed over. Seems most people have given up on it. Any suggestions as to what I can do
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debodun
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Buy yourself a plant ( shrub, tree or bush ) and keep it in a pot ( so it goes anywhere with you if you move ) and dedicate it to your loved one. You can pay your respects at the cemetry, but you also have something to focus on at home where you can have your moments of silence to remember them. Watering, tending and watching that plant grow is a wonderful feeling : )
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Same happen to my son's grave.. I got a friend to put in a stationary vase. Now they just cut around it.
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Ask the cemetery manager for guidance on what you can do that would not be destroyed.
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A different option - you can pay your respects by donating to a charity in honor of your loved one. Then you're beloved can be honored and will help someone in need.
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Unless money or cemetary policy prohibits, either place a slab over or coping around the grave. This will stop the mowing over the plot and you place a plant in a pot on/in the grave without fear.
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the care you paid for is called endowment and thats what your getting, sad to say many cemetery are going broke. The only way to save them is if people will get together as a community and support their cemetery, form a Board of trustees, appointed by your local supervisor and vote for a local tax called L&L(Lighting and Landscape) many fire station and cemetery's use this to support themselves doesn't to be much like 23.00 per owned house in your district but over each yr time will built a good fund to help keep cemetery running, start a preneed fund to pay for services ahead of kinda like a lay-away plan for funeral services only charge small fee to write up, goes in a fund for future but cemetery can use interest, there is lots of ways to make money if they try. I know i have worked at a small cemetery for 34 yrs and thats how we have stayed a float.
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Bring the live plant or flowers to a friend or relative. The person you loved doesn't reside at the gravesite. A marker or stone with engraving should be sufficient along with a nice blanket of grass surrounding it.
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