Invite visitors to bring their own pebble in tribute, adding to your memorial garden. A pebble bed or bowl is another lovely remembrance garden idea. Personalise a garden memorial bench or chair with an engraving or plaque bearing your loved one’s name, or perhaps an engraved memorial stone or garden plaque with a special sentiment. Consider outdoor candle holders with coloured glass, solar powered lanterns, or strings of solar-powered lights woven through branches or amid trailing plants and trellis. Lighting a candle for a loved one can be a meaningful comfort and also bring colour when the sun goes down. In the summertime, sometimes the best time to sit and quietly reflect in a remembrance garden is at the end of the day.
Consider grasses or bamboo, spinners or windchimes in your remembrance garden as alternative ways to combine ornamental features with gentle sounds. Fountain-like pumps are suitable for ponds, while ornamental bowls and pebble beds take up little space and don’t require a constant supply of water. Solar powered water features are available in many shapes and sizes, suitable for all sorts of memorial gardens. The sound of water can be calming and relaxing, helping to clear your mind of ‘noisy’ thoughts. Find them online from breeders who specialise in native British varieties. If you have the right habitat nearby, you can also ‘grow your own’ butterflies for release. For many people, the cheerful robin is a symbol of hope, while for others, butterflies are especially meaningful.Ī bird table or feeder is a practical ornamental feature, while plants will also draw hungry birds in search of insects to your remembrance garden.īlooms including wallflowers, heliotrope, sweet William and stocks are much-loved by butterflies, which also find the purple-flowering garden shrub buddleia irresistible. It’s always wonderful when wildlife is attracted to a garden and this can take on special significance when someone we love dies. Outdoor paints or finishes can add a special touch and increase their longevity, while adding drainage holes where possible will keep the plants healthy and happy. Little personal items from your loved one’s daily life can be lovely reminders to incorporate in your memorial garden. Personal touchesĪ chipped teapot that always had a ready supply of cuppas on the go, an old pair of wellies, shopping basket, or even a football, can make a unique garden planter or home for wildlife. Given the right amount of sunshine, nutrients, TLC and water, most plants will thrive in containers, so don’t let space limit your imagination, when it comes to creating a remembrance garden. Pretty climbing clematis Remembrance also looks wonderful when it comes into late summer bloom. Discover 13 beautiful tribute roses for some inspiration. Roses are wonderful garden memorials for loved ones, with a host of varieties including Loving Memory, At Peace and Never Forgotten specially named with loving sentiments in mind. Bios urns and Geos urns, available through many funeral directors, combine cremation ashes in the growing matter to bring a tree to life from seed.
Forget-me-nots can be bought from many garden centres or sown as seeds between May and September to flower next spring.Ī tree can be a long-lasting garden memorial. It bursts into blue flowers in the spring, which complement those of the forget-me-not (pictured above). Rosemary is traditionally the herb of remembrance and is a robust evergreen. Here are seven memory garden ideas that may inspire you. Whether you have a sheltered spot in a corner of the garden, or a sunny balcony, plants and garden ornaments can take on real meaning in memory of someone you loved. Creating a garden memorial for loved ones can be a wonderful tribute, as well as a healing place for quiet contemplation. There is nothing quite like time spent outdoors in a beautiful space, for remembering a loved one. ‘If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden’
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