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Grounds Care, Plants, Decorations

Winter Flavour at the Cemetery

While doing Autumn Cleanup in your yard, remember to check your relative'south graves every bit well.

Past the end of Oct, families must remove all items left at the grave through the summertime -- including flower pots and decorative items.

Annuals should be cut downwards or removed and left in the trash bins at the side of the road.

Each in-ground burying space may be decorated with one wreath, between Nov. 1 and March 31. This means one wreath at any given fourth dimension — so you may place a Thanksgiving-themed wreath, then remove information technology for a Christmas 1, etc. Wreaths placed in the winter months may be of natural or artificial materials.

Any items remaining at the grave subsequently October 31 are removed by the grounds maintenance team and discarded.

The h2o on the grounds is shut off before frost is likely. The trash bins are removed before snow arrives.

What is the family responsibility in tending graves?

Families are responsible for the budget of each grave. This includes keeping the headstones clean and in good repair, having them righted if they are heaved past roots or frost, and keeping any family-planted shrubs at the correct height and properly trimmed and weeded.

There are rules concerning what family and friends may place at the grave in remembrance or as decoration. Most of the rules exist to ensure that the cemetery is safe for visitors and grounds crew. Others exist to ensure that the overall appearance of the entire section and cemetery is pleasing and for the well-nigh role, non chaotic. You may download a one folio summary below.

Read the second question below to learn the nuts on "framing" a headstone with mulch.

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My loved one's headstone is sinking! What tin can I practise?

Usually, the headstone is not sinking. In about cases, it'south the turf continuing to grow around a headstone that is staying right in place. What to exercise?

Trim back the turf.
Place mulch around the rock. See the adjacent question to learn how.

If these don't address the situation, please phone call the office. If nosotros cannot repair the headstone, nosotros will refer you to ane of the local monument companies who have specialized equipment for this type of work.

How practise I "frame" a headstone with mulch?

For a more polished look, yous may cut a "frame" around the rock, no more than than 5-half dozen" broad on each side, and remove the turf correct downwardly to the soil below.
Graves are very narrow. It's of import that y'all exercise not "spread out" and extend your piece of work onto the side by side grave.
The frame you create should be no more than half-dozen inches out from the headstone in any direction.
Place the turf you removed adjacent to the trash bins along the side of the cemetery roads. Then in the frame, identify natural bark mulch.
Yous can mix a weed preventer like Preen in likewise, to keep weeds from taking advantage of the space you created.

I accept questions near plantings.

Whether or non yous may plant at a grave is determined past a combination of factors, from the style of the headstone permitted at the grave to rules that are private to the cemetery. Please read the i-page summary institute below, and telephone call the office if you are unsure. Information technology'south e'er a good thought to become approval for your plans ahead of fourth dimension.

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What virtually artificial flowers, statues and décor?

Artificial flowers, wreaths or other décor are not permitted in the months when nosotros mow — Apr 1 to Oct. 31. They tin can fall into pieces and damage mowing equipment. Decorative items, statues, toys, or anything breakable are not permitted.

How are the cemeteries maintained?

Erie Cemetery Clan employs a full time grounds coiffure at each of our three cemeteries. Their nigh important responsibility is to perform the piece of work for each interment professionally, and to treat the families visiting the cemetery with care and respect.

Each coiffure is additionally tasked with the job of maintaining the cemetery property year round:

They mow the grass every day it is possible to mow, from "green-up" to the first snow. On boilerplate, every surface area of each cemetery is visited by the mowers and trimmers each week. If you believe the grass is "never" mowed in your area, but you but visit on Wednesdays…make a visit on Friday and see if that is the twenty-four hours when it'southward freshly cutting.
In improver, the crews spend the warmer months trimming trees and shrubs in the cemetery's "common" areas; maintain roads, waterlines, ponds, drainage, paths, chapels and other structures. They pour physical foundations under all of the new headstones in each cemetery. They are as well responsible for removing trash from the grounds.
With the first snow, their responsibilities shift to snow removal and plowing, in add-on to their regular burial piece of work.
Additionally, they are the go-to help when our visitors are lost, have a question, or need assistance.

We feel fortunate to have such a hardworking crew at each cemetery.