Christmas pots.

We always take a Christmas pot to our parent's grave each year. The cost of these are rising each year.
We were in Morrisons the other day and spotted garden pots containing a small conifer, ivy and three winter flowering plants in a terracotta pot. Cost, just £5.00. A real bargain and likely to last far longer than a Christmas pot. We will be buying potted plants in future instead of fresh flowers too, which last no time at all.

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We make a wreath and that costs very little, got told off two years ago when we put little battery driven led lights on it, apparently not suitable in the church yard, we thought Betty would have enjoyed it if she had seen it.

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A nice gesture from you.
Just wondering if you can put ivy in a graveyard.
Just because of its rampant way of spreading??
Might be wrong but if the graves are tended by the
council you might find it isn't permitted?
They will pull it out and I don't want you getting upset
should that happen.

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Can't see why a pot would be able to spread, usually needs to be planted in the ground to do that I thought ?

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Ivy can plant itself when it hangs over the pot and it grows roots from
the hanging part into the soil. I just mentioned it as I didn't want
mesco to be upset if the caretakers of the cemetery took anything
away.

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I think taking a pot is a very nice idea Mesco and the one from Morrisons is a bargain.

I used to put flowers outside in our memorial garden and used to get upset because they don't seem to last past a day. I now buy flowers for in the house and go to the memorial garden to let our loved ones know that is what we have done.

We have also planted rose bushes for them which bloom so lovely for quite a bit of the year.

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A lovely gesture. Morrisons plants and pots are so good value.

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Thank you, I hadn't thought about that. But the pots were placed in the garden of remembrance and there is no ground for them to take root in but I will keep my eye on things non the less and make sure the next pots don't contain any ivy.

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That's nice and the flowers will be a constant reminder. We have a rose bush which belonged to my father in law and it's over fifty years old.

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That IS a bargain, and I might consider something like that, if I have time to visit my own parents' plot. Mum's birthday is the day I nip off to the Lake District.

Yes, Morrisons are always good value.