IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONAL WAYS TO FEEL MORE CLOSER TO YOUR LOVED ONE

A backyard memorial garden is a rather beautiful and personal tribute to loved ones. Here are six inspiring ideas that help you design a peaceful and meaningful retreat in memory of your loved ones.

1. Personalized Plantings

A memorial garden really starts with plants that are special to you, so incorporate flowers, trees, or shrubs that remind you of the loved one whose memory this garden is for. Symbolic meanings could be some flowers like roses, lilies, or even certain trees such as magnolias and cherry blossoms that are symbolic of beauty and rebirth.

One can get a plant that connects with either their birth month, favorite color, or the fragrance they were really fond of. Native plants are great as well since they will bloom with the least maintenance in your place and also help the local wildlife, such as birds and butterflies, which may come to visit and actually enrich the space of your garden.

2. Pathway Memory

Include a pathway that will lead you to your memorial garden that should decorate and serve its purpose to it. A stone or gravel path is an invitation for quiet reflection walks. You can select engraved names, quotes, or dates on stepping stones; the personal meaning of the design will differ with each family. Other people prefer more personalized markers or plaques that are engraved with inscriptions. A memory pathway provides inspiration for your garden's design while providing a space where memories of the loved one can be held.

3. Water feature serenity

A small water feature is a fountain, birdbath, or small pond. It brings serenity to a memorial garden. How can you not feel relieved when the sound of the water washes over you? It's one of the softest sounds in existence.

If your loved one enjoyed the ocean or fishing, the presence of water can be deeply meaningful. There is something magical about small cascading fountains, while birdbaths will attract the local birds that will add life and activity to your garden. This is a very serene sitting area meant to spend that quiet moment of reflection while you muse through memories against the sounds of nature.

4. Memory Bench or Seating Area

A bench or seating area makes sense for the quiet time of reflection within your garden. You may add a solid bench made of wood or stone and swing there as somewhere to sit and think or journal or meditate. You can make it even more personal by putting a plaque of your loved one or even a favorite quote on that for that seating area to be more personalized.

A warm invitingly designed silent sitting area should encourage very high visitation and enhanced interaction with the space which might turn out to be a memorial sanctuary.

5. Wind Chimes and Garden Ornaments

For instance, you can include wind chimes or any other soothing sound that triggers a peaceful ambiance to be set in a memorial garden. It is that soothing melody of the wind that heals them. One can even use decorative features of the garden by dangling angel statues or butterfly statues since it symbolically means to them.

Take those things which mimic your deceased person's personality or belief or that feels close to your heart.

6. Memory Stone or Plaque

A memory stone, plaque, or engraved marker is an accompaniment to a garden that adds personal touch. While it may be one stone or several engraved stones with special meaning because of important dates or carrying special messages, plaques using poetry or song lyrics or personal notes will give a visual interpretation of your memories. A marker or plaque in a reserved space makes it a permanent commemoration, and that simply makes the garden somewhere that holds memory and honors and preserves these.

All these elements turn out to make a garden a shrine offering a beautiful place for reflection acting, as it is, an ever-living tribute to the memory of some dear one.