Went to visit my parents' grave, and the cemetery people seem to have mulched the entire place... which sounds good except they've used very coarse wood chip (3-4" pieces!) and layered it thickly and heavily over everything. There were a few narssici showing, but I couldn't see anything else we'd planted over the past few years. Dug down about 4" and found some hyacinths in bud and some more squashed and sad looking narssici. No apparent sign of the vase we had sunk into the ground for flowers etc - that was about 6" underĀ still full of water. Didn't manage to unearth the London Pride or anything else. I somewhat half heartedly planted the snowdrops I'd brought from my garden (originally from theirs). No idea if they'll be spared.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Thatās a shame LG, Ā itās a problem that can happen with council workers, weāve been know to mutter āanimalsā a few times in the past. Ā Were there any restrictions to what you could plant on the grave or how far from the stone you could plant up?Ā When we looked after our Churchyard we would respect peopleās arrangements, although I would dispose of jam jars if anyone had put one there. If people planted all along the grave length we would just leave it. Ā
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā
Not too close to the grass path, and nothing invasive or 'messy' was what I was told when I spoke to them a few years ago. It's more annoying when sun bleached and broken pots of plastic flowers seem to be fine. Ho hum.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
They probably think it will cut the cost of mowing regularly, but it would have been better to let the grass grow and wildflowers arrive as in our local Cemetery. One old boy though definitely didn't approve and was cutting the grass short around his wife's grave with a pair of scissors!
Being lazy and having pizza for dinner since both kids are still stopping us cooking a proper meal. The posh and not particularly cheap pizza from Coop is the usual choice but it comes with 7 halfs of cherry tomato on it. 7. On a pizza that cuts into 8 slices and costs a fiver. Ā Could they really not put that second half of the 4th cherry tomato on them and still turn a profit?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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When we looked after our Churchyard we would respect peopleās arrangements, although I would dispose of jam jars if anyone had put one there.
If people planted all along the grave length we would just leave it. Ā