"What Flowers Should I Plant?"I am often asked about which flowers should be planted in the cemetery. The answer depends on several factors: Cemetery Rules. Some...
Grave Care is a Seasonal BusinessI was having a great autumn, planting lots of colorful mums like this... Then this happened... It completely squashed the rest of the...
Why Clean Your Headstone?Look around the cemetery. You can see history right there in the headstones - thin, curved-top stones that are so weathered you can't...
To Lichen Or Not To LichenI receive calls to clean headstones – moss, lichen, ground in dirt all detract from the beauty of the stone, leaving it looking...
Why We Need Family HistoryMany of us remember trekking to the cemetery as kids – impatient while our parents planted flowers at relatives’ gravestones or dropped...
Seasonal SplendorIn the United States, most people plant at Memorial Day - usually geraniums. But by mid-summer, they're either dried out (if families...