Garden #4 - The Memory Garden Embedded in Two Pollinator Gardens

Created a little more than ten years ago as a burial ground for ashes, the Memory garden was originally planted rather formerly with boxwoods. Then, as the church grounds moved more toward native plants, two pollinator gardens appeared flanking it on each side. Some parishioners expressed the wish to be buried among the wildflowers rather than the boxwoods, since in death they wanted to return to nature. During the severe Christmas freeze of 2022 most of the boxwoods suffered serious damage and had to be removed, and the three gardens are now more closely joined together.