Grounds Flower and Decoration Regulations

Please be aware these rules and regulations for planting and memorialization are in place to help maintain the appearance of the Park, for the safety of our workers, and for you.

ATTENTION: Due to the safety parameters of our insurance policy, please remove any decorations, stones, pebbles, and boarder surrounds you have placed. Serious safety issues will be handled directly on a case-by-case basis and unauthorized decorations will be removed.  

 

Spring/Summer/Fall (March 1-Mid-October)

Flowers in Bronze Vases: We encourage decorating your loved one’s grave by utilizing a cemetery approved vase or the bronze vase cast in your marker. The overall appearance of the cemetery is beautified by this decorating. Live flowers will stay until they start to wilt. Artificial flowers, in approved cemetery ground and/or marker vases will be left until they show signs of fading. (NOTE: Cone flower vases – plastic vases with metal to stick into the ground – fall apart and are not permitted.)

During the holidays listed below, we temporarily relax rules to allow flowers and decorations (such as potted plants) to be placed on graves. These holidays include:

  • Easter

  • Memorial Day

  • Mother’s Day

  • Father’s Day

  • Independence Day

  • Labor Day

These decorations outside the Grounds Flower and Decoration Regulations are removed seven days after the holiday. If you intend to take home a potted plant or floral decoration placed for the holiday, please retrieve it prior to seven days post-holiday.

Fall/Winter (Mid-October-March 1)

After the grass cutting season when the leaves begin to fall, winter wreaths with stands, grave blankets, pillows, and other winter decorations may be placed. They will remain until March 1, when our grounds personnel will remove all winter decorations. Any unauthorized decorations will be removed as we make our way through the Park and bronze vases will be turned down for safe storage during the winter months.

Flowers in Bronze Vases:  You cannot use cemetery approved ground and/or marker vases during the winter months as they may freeze and burst, requiring their replacement in the spring.

Mausoleum Flower & Decoration Regulations

Fall clean-up will begin Mid-October. Spring and summer decorations, and any unauthorized decorations will be removed.

 

Permanent Decorations (30 days or longer)

All permanent decorations, including artificial flowers, must be kept in cemetery installed crypt or niche front vases and may not intrude on neighboring crypt or niche fronts.

Only cemetery supplied or pre-approved emblems or pictures may be permanently placed or attached to crypt or niche fronts by qualified cemetery personnel. Any other decorations, attached in any way to the crypt or niche fronts, will be removed. 

Any decorations placed on the floor will be immediately removed by the cemetery. Flowers from a service will be left until they begin to fade, wilt, or if it is 15 days after the service.

 

Temporary Decorations (Fewer than 30 days)

Any decorations placed on cemetery supplied tables or stands will be considered temporary decorations. Any temporary decorations left on tables or stands for more than 30 days, will be removed.

Personal tables, stands, or other devices are not allowed and will be removed.

Please do not bring decorations that require electrical power. For safety reasons, outlets are not for public use.

Preserving Flowers and Memorialization

On the Grounds

Only approved cemetery vases which are set in the ground and turned over for use may be used. The office has them available and can permanently install for you. Fresh and artificial flowers will be left on-site unless they are starting to wilt, becoming unsightly, faded, or if they are impeding on neighboring property.

We allow an 8-inch planting bed along the base of the monument. Flowers must be planted in and not simply placed on top of the planting bed area. You must keep the flower bed in good condition, watered, and free of weeds. If your flower bed becomes unsightly (weeds etc.) cemetery personnel will remove the bed. If you want to place mulch, it must be soft wood chips or small bark (no stone or rock of any kind) and may not be placed around individual markers.

No fencing of any kind (wood, plastic, concrete, metal, etc.) is to be placed around the monument or marker. No wood, metal, concrete, iron, or plastic objects (crosses, statutes, vases, etc.) are permitted. Nothing may be attached with wires or zip ties to your marker or monument. Any of the above-mentioned items will be removed.

Solar lights, inflatable toys, balloons, shepherd hooks, garden tablets, pictures, plastic objects, windmills, animals, metal stands, boxes, homemade objects, decorative pots and temporary vases, glass containers, and candles of any kind are not permitted and will be removed. 

In consideration of others, we ask that you please limit your decorations to one per grave site.

 

In Mausoleums

Flowers and/or decorations must be placed in cemetery installed crypt or niche vases only and may not impede on neighboring crypts or niches. Fresh and artificial flowers will be removed if they are wilting, becoming unsightly, or faded.

Only cemetery approved emblems purchased from the cemetery may be affixed to crypt or niche fronts by cemetery personnel. Any non-regulation emblem or picture attached to a crypt or niche front may cause permanent damage to the front and will be removed.

Anything placed on the floor or ground near indoor or outdoor crypts or niches will be immediately removed. These items cause safety concerns and maintenance problems. Please be respectful of others whose crypt or niche is located in the same area.

 

Miscellaneous Information

Regarding monument space, only cemetery approved monuments are permitted.