For gardens with limited flowers, unconventional sources such as friends and community gardens, allotments, hedgerows, fields and meadows, can be drawn upon for a sustainable and local solution.
Just a little from here and there.
A few beautiful blooms and some interesting foliage can look very stylish.
Ask friends if they would like to contribute from their gardens.
A bunch of seasonal flowers from a local grower can always be added to a selection of greenery from your garden.
Purchase small plants, such as primroses which can be incorporated into a tribute with ivy and moss. Later the primroses can be planted in family gardens or planted on the grave.
It is as essential to know what not to pick! If you go to the wonderful RHS site they have an excellent page on what harmful flowers to avoid.
In the last of these images the arrangement is an alternative to cut flowers. Made up of growing primroses and wind flowers with moss and ivy gathered from the bereaved family’s garden, it was designed to look like a mossy bank. This idea allows for replanting around the grave or for the arrangement to be separated and planted in family members’ gardens.
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