Floral and planting regulations

Flowers and other decorations are a very important part of remembering our loved ones. Your Catholic Cemeteries make every attempt to balance this important and healing tradition with the ensuring appropriate levels of maintenance during the mowing season. The following Rules and regulations regarding plot decorations apply to all our Catholic Cemeteries.

Plantings and maintenance

Only the Cemetery may plant and maintain or authorize maintenance and plantings of landscape materials on cemetery grounds. The Cemetery further reserves the right to remove, prune or replace any landscape materials as it deems necessary.

Floral regulations

No flower receptacles may be placed on any plot, unless approved in advance by the Cemetery.

Fresh flowers may be placed on graves at any time. Potted plants with a container of more than six inches in diameter are strictly forbidden.

No wires, pins, glass containers, artificial, dyed or preserved flowers, photographs, souvenirs, wreaths or decorations other than fresh flowers are allowed on any grave except during holidays designated by the Cemetery. Artificial, dyed or preserved flowers, photographs, souvenirs, potted plants, wreaths or decorations may be removed 5 days after the designated holiday during the Spring, Summer and Fall months and 10 days after designated Holidays in Winter months in order to facilitate mowing during the growing season.

No more than two flower receptacles may be placed on any grave

The Cemetery shall have the authority to remove all flowers, photographs, souvenirs, potted plants, wreaths or herbage of any kind from the cemetery or mausoleum as soon as, in the judgment of the Superintendent or designee, they become unsightly or are detrimental, or when they do not conform to the standards and Rules and Regulations of the Cemetery.

The use of photographs, souvenirs, potted plants, wreaths or floral designs on the crypts or floor of the mausoleum is strictly forbidden.