In an ideal world, someone would always be available to take care of your loved one’s grave. Unfortunately, family members may live far from the resting place of their loved ones, or they may find it difficult to find time in their schedule to take care of the gravesite.

This is where perpetual care services come in. In a perpetual care cemetery, the cemetery maintains many parts of the cemetery. It provides for gardeners whose job it is to cut and fertilize the grass and keep the gravesite clean on a weekly basis. This is typically paid with a one-time payment and assures care forever.

However, there are many things this fee doesn’t cover. One is providing flowers for a loved one’s grave on an ongoing basis. With perpetual floral care families can schedule flower arrangements to be placed on a loved one’s grave periodically. This could be quarterly, monthly or for special occasions.

If this is something a family wishes to do, typically they can do it through their funeral home or through a third-party vendor. Flower arrangements can be selected and will be delivered to the gravesite. Fresh flowers can be delivered, but often silk flowers are used as they will last longer.

Families have the option of selecting a schedule for floral arrangements to be delivered. Contact your funeral home or a third-party vendor to set this up. In this case the periodic fees associated with the flower delivery would be charged to a credit card. With this method, families can be assured that their loved one’s final resting place will always decorated.

Prices vary based upon the arrangement selected, but typically vary from $20 to about $100 per arrangement, so a this is inexpensive way to honor and remember a loved one.