Burl wood is highly prized by artists because of its unique shapes and ring patterns. Burl wood is a type of fast growing, abnormal growth found on some trees. Burls form due to environmental stress or damage, often caused by either a fungal or insect attack.

Meadowmere St. Walnut Burl

So,  this gnarly tumor on a tree winds up as a natural beauty and work of art, like our Blond Burl Wood Memorial Urn.  Looks good engraved and can be personalized with artwork. Lid lifts and easily accommodates the plastic container from the funeral home.

If you prefer a darker shade of burl wood, we have the Royal Irish Burl Wood Urn:

Irish Burl Wood Urn

For a high-gloss finish and room for storage , the Mahogany Burl Wood Memorial Chest Urn has a lined interior.  Features a removable tray to hold jewelry and other mementos of your loved one. Keyed lock for security.

Mahogany Burl Memorial Chest

We have a new line of wood cremation urns at Urn Garden. The natural beauty and warmth of wood is an excellent choice for families that plan to keep the ashes in the home or secure at a columbarium or niche at the cemetery.

Old Soul Vintage Style Wood Urn

I like the simplicity of this urn style, vintage look, hand painted details, secure lift off lid.

If your tastes run a little richer and want more flair, this gorgeous black and gold trimmed urn may be more your style.

Laurel Black and Gold Hand-Painted Wood Urn

Our attractive full-size adult urn is solid birch wood, hand-painted by our talented artists in striking black and gold accents. Antiqued brass feet.  Urn loads from the top by lifting the lid.

This sculpture by one of the Urn Garden artists keeps coming around, and there’s always a wild story to go with it.  The latest is a client who was involved with a Las Vegas animal rescue operation back in the ’80’s. She handled exotics.

Big cats and monkeys.

Funny thing, this story had a familiar ring to it.

Turns out, she had the ashes of a lioness that had been in the closet all these years. She stumbled on to our Brave Heart lion keepsake urn while shopping for a different style cremation urn for another sad occasion.

One look and she knew she had to deal with the lion in the closet. She’s only has half the ashes.  This urn is designed for keepsake size portions and won’t accommodate all of her ashes.  But she has a plan.

Our Gold Ribbon Heart keepsake urn pendant has a chamber inside which families can use to preserve the ashes of their loved one, lock of hair, or other small loving memento. Created in high quality gold plating and studded with crystals, our urn jewelry has a secure threaded lid, and includes tools to fill and seal the urn necklace.

This style of cremation urn jewelry is also available in 14K yellow gold, 14K white gold, and sterling silver.

Gold Ribbon Urn Necklace

Other styles of cremation jewelry:

Red Heart Urn Necklace

Gold Puff Heart Urn Necklace

This month we’re featuring heart-shaped cremation urns, jewelry urns, and memorial stones. One of our favorites are the earth friendly Unity urns.

Unity Floral Urn

These beautiful urns are handmade and feature inlaid fresh flower petals. It is available in three sizes, pet or keepsake size urn, standard adult urn, or a double capacity companion urn.Each urn includes a water-soluble plastic bag for the cremated remains.

The Unity urn is designed for ground burial. Once buried it will degrade naturally over time. Available in three designs with matching keepsakes.

Pink Unity Urn

We’re closing out a line of urns that would be a great value for families and funeral homes alike.  Urn Garden is offering a limited supply of a solid brass urns with engraved floral details, plus matching keepsake urn for $99.99.

Ralph B. White was a National Geographic cameraman who spent his life pursuing adventure. His friends have carried out his last wish, taking his ashes to every continent.

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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:

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

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.

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