Progress at last in creating my Pet Cemetery Garden! I ordered and received personalized memorial stones for four of my dearly departed kitties, including Shadow. My garden is looking MUCH nicer this year, anyway, and the new additions make it even better.
Here is the walkway from the door into the garden area. I'm only able to plant on the left, as the vents in the wall of the laundry room blow out on the right. I've got lovely basil, lemon balm, and alyssum planted there now. At the far end you can see my lemon verbena, strawberry plant, and the stone-surrounded area with my dwarf hyacinths, paper whites, and the dwarf pomegranate, which has MORE fruits on it!!
Here is where I placed the new stones, all the way to the end and slightly to the right, near the yellow plum tree. I've got a mini rosebush in front of them, and an angel candlestick holder as a "statue" behind it:
Eventually I will be putting a kitty angel sculpture there instead of the human angel, and adding three crosses with the names of three more cats.
It's not a large space, so I have to make the most of what I have. I think that, so far, I'm doing a pretty good job!
I think you're doing a beautiful job, Lucretia! And I am astounded that you can not only grow a dwarf pomegranate, but that it bears fruit! :D
ReplyDeleteWe still have our last dog's ashes in a box, and I'd like to do something similar out at the new place. I wonder what the movers are thinking right now as they pick up the cardboard box marked “Kaos Ashes”... Hee hee.
Thank you! :-) I don't actually have any cats buried in the garden, as we take them up to a special place in our local regional park for that, but since you own the land you'll be on, why not have your own pet cemetery??
DeleteThis is one determined pomegranate bush, I tell you! It's MUCH smaller than it should be, considering I've had it for several years now, but in my community garden it kept getting hit with blazing hot days followed by frosts in the winter, and it still bloomed (or tried to) every year. So I'm hoping that now, with a more sheltered area, it may start growing again. Fingers crossed...
You really have done a great job! Although we're not supposed to do it where I live, I buried my cat, Chadwick, at the edge of my small yard. I found an appropriate stone that I could stand up, put an epitaph on it and then enclosed her burial place with smaller stones. The epitaph has long since washed away, but her grave is still clearly identifiable.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I can totally understand why you would bury Chadwick there near you; the only other appropriate place would be the cemetery itself. It sounds lovely, even without the epitaph.
DeleteThat reminds me, once I get the crosses put up I will need to tell our apartment manager and her husband that those are NOT real graves! They do have to go into our garden sometimes, as the boiler room entrance is there (those concrete steps on the right of the first pic), and it might freak them out if they think there are bodies buried in the yard!! ;-)
That is really lovely. I have a lot of my ill fated baby mice that died when I was a child buried around trees in the 'orchard' of my parents place. Also a drowned crow we found once that we didn't really know, but we thought deserved a proper burial. I used to have little funerals for them all and read them epitaphs.
ReplyDeleteThanks. :-) I love your doing funerals for the mice and crow! We buried my son's two pet rats in the backyard where we lived then, and had little funerals for them. And there is ONE burial in this garden, under a large rock so it couldn't be dug up... a baby bird that fell out of its nest in the carport and died next to our van. I knew exactly where it came from, but it was dead when we found it, so I buried it rather than throw it in the dumpster; I just could NOT do that!
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