It’s dry here and the leaves are fading and dropping off the trees. Rain is needed in the garden if we are going to have any color this fall. Urns for the upcoming season include our pretty maple leaf urn pendant than can be mounted on either a chain or bracelet as a keepsake.

The Legends of the Fall cremation urn is a work of art, fusing metal and baked enamel to create a vision of strength and beauty for the season.

Our affordable Tree of Life urn is simple in design and color palate, slate and silver colors for a masculine look, This safe and secure urn is less than $150.00

If your loved one was fond of purple, The Moonlight Bohemian Cremation Urn might be the tribute you are looking for.  Rich color and detail, The Moonlight Bohemian is a blown glass urn with a lid that opens from the top and can be permanently sealed if desired.

Blown Glass Cremation Urn

August birthdays could pair purple gladiolus, candles and pictures with this urn at the memorial service for a beautiful display.

Glads are easy to grow if you are considering a memorial garden, or just a special flower planting dedicated to your loved one. We thew some down in the garden this year and were pleased with the results. We want more!

A nice surprise on Memorial Day 2010, poppies sprang up around the bird bath in the garden.

We love poppies, blood red oriental poppies. Ancient Egyptians placed garlands of poppies on mummies and the Greeks crowned their dead with the flower. Legend has it that in Europe, poppies sprang up on battlefields from the blood of slain soldiers. In the Victorian language of flowers, Poppies symbolize consolation, sleep, and rest,  and was commonly used to memorialize the dead.

“And now, my beauties, something with poison in it, I think. Something with poison in it, but attractive to the eye,  and soothing to the smell. Poppies… Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleep. Now they’ll sleep!”
-The Wicked Witch of the West

Connemara marble is a beautiful and rare stone – 750 million years old and found only in the northwest of Ireland.

Urn Garden is pleased to bring you the finest Irish cremation urn in the world, selected from premium blocks of Connemara marble  quarried in beautiful County Galway. Our Irish Marble Smith hand-carves and hand-polishes every urn, making each urn a unique work of art from a precious piece of the Emerald Isle.

Customers agree, here’s a kind word from Catherine, who selected an Irish marble burial urn for her mother:

The urns came and they are beautiful. My Mother was from Ireland and so a Connemara Marble urn was really the only choice. No one in our family has ever been cremated before, so this was a unique experience. My Father was shattered, but he actually feels better now that she is home in the urn. We plan on taking her back to Ireland to be buried. I must tell you, the picture does not do it justice. It is far more grand than the impression the photo gives you.

Connemara Marble Urn

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Veteran’s Day Sale:

Americana Urn

Our solid brass cremation urn with vibrant red, white, and blue enamel is on sale and includes an engraved silver medallion for $235.00

American Pride Cremation Urn

Our solid brass American Pride cremation urn features a rich slate finish, hand-engraved with an American Eagle and the American Flag. Perfect for a military funeral service, or patriotic soul.

Eternity Flag Case Urn

The Eternity is a combination walnut flag case and urn. Back of the flag case contains urn compartment with 225 cubic inch capacity. Embossed Great Seal on elegant beveled glass. Heirloom Walnut with hinged lid, concealed magnetic closure and dust seal to preserve your 5′ x 9.5′ standard size burial flag.  The Eternity Urn is:

ROME:

The Italian Bishops’ Conference is preparing to publish updated norms on funeral rites including cremation and the burial of ashes.

The manual, which will be reviewed and approved by the bishops’ conference in Assisi on November 9,  will explain that Catholic doctrine does not oppose cremation but rejects the practice of storing ashes of loved ones at home.  The document will stress that this is a violation of the work of mercy that obliges Catholics to provide a holy burial to the dead.

Keeping the ashes of the dead at home does away with the important rite of accompanying the deceased to the cemetery, “which unites the community of believers.”  Burying the ashes at a cemetery, the “place of the dead,” is what makes most sense, the bishops will add.

Scattering the ashes, according to the Italian bishops, is based on a pagan ritual that supposedly symbolized the union of the deceased with “the great soul of mother earth,” and is contrary to the Christian obligation, established by the Lord Jesus himself, to bury the dead.

Continue reading “Church in Italy to issue clarification on cremation”

Egyptian Pyramid Keepsake Urn

We’ve just released our new Egyptian Pyramid Urn. Sculpted and produced in cold-cast resin, the Pyramid urn can be used as a keepsake or a cremation urn for a small pet.

Other timeless Egyptian pyramid urn styles include the adult size Black Granite Urn.

Egyptian Black Granite Urn

English Rose Urn

Introducing the English Rose and Black Orchid Scattering Urns. Durable, dignified and easy to use.

Black Orchid Urn

Each urn features a convenient removable lid that opens for simple scattering of the ashes.

Contains no metal or plastic components and can be recycled or composted after use.

Suitable for “in-cabin” airline transportation.

Leopard print urns? Why not?

Urn Garden has a new line of biodegradable scattering urns for families that plan to celebrate life by spreading the ashes.