Grave design: basic rules

Registration of graves and care for them is the last opportunity to pay homage to the departed person. The burial place should have an atmosphere of quiet, light sadness and be convenient for everyone who comes to remember the deceased. Every grave has a table and a small bench where it would be possible to sit down.

It is important to remember that the design of graves has its own laws, it is very important sense of proportion. If the design of other sites requires a play of colors that lifts the mood, then the cemetery requires respectful restraint and rigor.

Grave sites are limited in area, which dictates the need to comply with specific standards in the design. It is important to decorate the grave in such a way that its appearance is in harmony with the general appearance of the cemetery. What should be the proper design of graves in the cemetery? The photos below show the successful options.

The assortment of plants that would be suitable for decoration is great. Using several types, you can achieve a holistic composition that meets the main listed requirements. Plants that are suitable for the design of burial sites are usually divided into:

- Framing;

- forming a lawn;

- Seasonal.

The grave site is better divided into three parts, where for seasonal plantations 10% are allocated, under the frame - up to 25%, and the rest is allocated to ground cover and lawn plants.

In the first year it is better to limit the planting of the tree and annuals. With perennials and shrubs, unfortunately, you will have to wait at least a couple of years. The first three years the soil will sink (the time of subsidence depends on the soil), and only then you can think about the design of a permanent composition.

Children's graves are designed primarily by annuals or perennials, blooming for as long as possible. Usually selected are low flowers that give a gentle color. Sometimes, in order to facilitate care, preference is given to low ground cover plants, which, growing, cover the grave like a carpet, giving a sense of peace.

Sometimes the conditions do not allow you to formalize the grave in the way that relatives would like, and you have to limit yourself to stone slabs and gravel. But from the bare stone comes bitterness, sadness and oblivion. It is better to plant nekapriznye perennials, growing without much care: a fern (in a shady place), aquilegia, peonies, ornamental grasses.

It is worth thinking about what time of year you come to the graves of the deceased relatives. It would be better to stop at those plants, the peak of growth and flowering which falls on the time of visits. If you do not come often, plant instead of flowers shrubs (horizontal cotoneaster, spindle grass, shrubby shrub). It is better that the bush does not exceed two meters high. By the way, most shrubs can be cut and shaped.

Very spectacularly and solemnly looks the decoration of graves with evergreen conifers, such as cypress, thuja, microbiota, fir. Care they practically do not require, they do not need formation. If you stop on trees with powerful root systems, do not plant them in close proximity to the monument - they grow, they can heave it and even cause cracks.