Memorial Garden Suggestions

Hi all, I am going to make a memorial garden for my friend/neighbor that passed away last week, and will be including her husband and son that went before her. I was thinking of using a wheel barrow, but I already have one planter made with one, so was wanting your suggestions on how you would do it. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Misty

OH... Gee... anything will be your memory..spur... I'd have a nice flower bed in the wheel barrow..somehting flowing out also.. and in the back..by the handles.. I'd plant three shrubs... something tallish of human porportions... maybe two bigger ones.. and a son sized one.. in a family group... a bonnet of hers on top of one shrub...Perhaps it might be too literal a tribute... but if they can clothe the lawn geese.. you should feal OK in turning the shrub into your be loved friend...
I hope this wasn't too strange.. Gordon

Love the idea, Gordon! :)

Misty - did you come up with any ideas?

Hi pirl! Nothing concrete as of yet, with the Holidays, DH's Mom being ill, and now my oldest has broken his hand and has to have surgery on Tuesday! :(

Oh no! Sorry for the diversions but I do hope Mom is better and your oldest will have successful surgery.

Can you tell us what you associate with your departed neighbors that might give us some ideas?

Thanks pirl! Mom is better, thank goodness! And the surgery isn't suppose to be that bad, but you just never know!

Well, I didn't care much for the husband, so that makes it hard!
The son was a long time client where I used to work, he was my age, mid 30's, and that is about it for him.
Now Shirley was the one we just adored. She was always willing to share any of her flowers with us that she had. She always called me the water witch! LOL So I started calling her the dry witch because she never watered anything! She loved one of my sons and my daughter like they were her own grandkids. She had an evil little mind at times! LOL She loved to fish, and would even take my son with her at times. She was a huge cat lover. She was the one that always took in the strays in the neighborhood, even ones with babies, then had to figure out what on earth to do with all of them! HA HA HA Let me think on it some more to see what else comes to mind. :)

Sounds like a good friend! Maybe something water related or else something to do with cats. I'll think on it, too.

She also gave me a concrete bird bath that is so pretty! I did get about half of her house plants, too. :) Her son gave me a wind chime that she had given me back in the Summer and I forgot to take. I was digging glass out of her foot! LOL I want to incorporate the wind chime in to it somehow. Thanks for helping with any ideas!

A nice garden around the birdbath would be ideal - one that likes water since just changing the water in the birdbath can help greatly with the water needs. You'd also always think of her when you refill it. A little stone cat nearby would be charming. The wind chimes go right in with any garden.

Wonderful ideas, pirl! :)

My daughter lost a kitten she really loved. (I know that is nothing compared to a person, but she loved it. Her husband buried him in the woods and I want to plant some things around the little grave. There are already some black eyed susans there, and I put some cockscomb there. Any other ideas. I'd like to put a little bench for those of us who like to just sit in the woods and enjoy it.

Some nice low catnip?

And that stuff grows fast from seed, too!

That sounds great, didn't think of it. At least I'll know where my 3 cats are if I miss them!!

LOL It took our daughter's Chia Pet about 3 days to germinate, and now it is several inches tall after less than a week! :)