When you take flowers to the cementary, do they remove them or should I go back and get them?

My parents head stone has a vase on each side, so I bought some pink roses and yellow roses to go in the vases. Of course they are fake. I just want to know if the caretakers throw the flowers away? Someone told me they did.


My mother loved big flowers.

When you take flowers to the cementary, do they remove them or should I go back and get them?
The cemetery will remove as part of its maintenance of the property.
Reply:Hi, I know here they are not too strict on flowers in urns. I usually take the old ones out when I go up to put new ones in. With the old ones, I put them in the ground on older graves that have no flowers because they are so old that noone goes to them. The whole backside of cemetery has flowers now and it looks nice, not just old stones that noone can read.


But alot of cemeterys have a sign with "rules" at the gates.


This year I plan on planting a lilac bush behind one of the graves.
Reply:You need to ask the management.


I am sure they have some set of standards.
Reply:When I go to the cemetery I usually purchase the flowers on the way. There should be a few florists right next to the cemetery and they usually give a list of the times the cemetery will be cleaning up in case you place anything on the grave that you want to get back. If the florist doesn't provide this you can go the office at the cemetery and request this form from them, they will definitely have a time schedule. Anything left on the graves during clean up will be thrown away.
Reply:Okay I had this problem too . I caught the caretaker removing them one day and I told him that he could keep taking them out if he wanted too but I was going to be back the next day and bring more . it was his choice . Well anyway he stood 6 ft tall and me I am 5'5 so he told me I was a wiry little thing . He now lets me put flowers there and he left strict instructions for no one to mess with the flowers i lay down there .