Enliven the grave of a loved one all year is possible by carefully choosing the plants, containers, being careful with the compositions ready

Flowers on Graves

Keep pots and planters with beautiful cemetery, without too much intervention, is almost a challenge. Yet what is more heartbreaking than to see all these plants died of thirst, burnt by the sun or frost. It is however possible to reconcile tribute to the deceased and respect for the living what the plant while brightening lasting falls cheaply.

The real problem floral compositions

The sale of flowers for the graves compositions is primarily a trade: it is even an excellent market. The main sales are in death. The vigilance of the buyer is then weakened. He wants to honor the deceased; he wants the beautiful, which is normal. The price is less too. Emotion leads many people to be totally guided by the sellers who use a very comforting language studied, very convincing, much prowled.

Also, whether or not the compositions are, the plants are adapted or not, since the goal is elsewhere and most sellers lurk out those aspects so valuable.

The plants are thus trapped in a container too small to go quickly planted in a substrate often sterile (not expensive), rather than a fertile, suffer sudden attacks of a hostile climate they have ever known and die quickly.

What a disappointment to discover a few days later (two or three weeks at best), the sad spectacle of the plants dying. It is a painful surprise to many of us. Do not think that is inevitable and renew this type of purchase to maintain a beautiful tomb.

Graves, cemetery, very difficult environment for plants

Wind, reverberation of light and heat, cold slab in winter, hot summer, limited volume of soil, watering random … what are some of the extreme conditions that must suffer the plants.

In nature, these conditions are found in some Mediterranean areas, and mountain cliffs and rock slabs: Causes, scrubland, and Alpine mountain stages, coastal…

The plants are best suited frugal, wind resistant, require little water and able to withstand high temperature variations daily.

At the risk of incurring the wrath of some florists “special”, many species are totally inadequate for the proposed cemetery.

For example, Elwood (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Elwood’) and primroses that do not support the dry, cyclamen and variegated ivy burning sun and asparagus that lose their leaves in the early stress and crotons that freeze, miniature roses and impatiens in Madagascar are very demanding and can not withstand competition from other plants