Sustainable Funeral Flowers
A Personal Tribute
When I make funeral tributes for customers weather, they contact me directly or via a funeral parlour I try to ensure that the personality of the deceased is reflected. This may be through colour, through favourite flowers and foliage’s, by providing bulbs and plants that can be taken out and replanted in gardens or at the grave.
Recently my Uncle passed. He was an artist and a plants man and loved experimentation. He wished for a natural burial in a woodland just outside of Edinburgh. Right, I thought. I know my Uncle would not have minded a bit of experimentation in fact he would approve.
I picked the flowers from my field and some from my Uncles garden to trundle up the A1
The base a couple of beautiful, weathered branches tied together with string and moss stuffed into the crevices.
Adding the stems began with the dried stems and those that would last like the crocosmia seed heads, alliums and sedum. I placed them in groups like they were growing. The fresh stems like the anemone and the nerine were the last to go in. Smooth fern leaves were the last to go in, a contrast to lift the arrangement.
I was delighted, it was different and it was also totally compostable with 0 chemicals on the flowers. Ideal for the most beautiful green burial site.
More recent Autumunal designs, a little more traditional and a joy to make.
Dhalias are a key stem for these designs. Berries and dried stems feature too and berries.
All the bases are compostable, thats compostable, not biodegradable. There is a difference and the former is better!
