Need help with grave maintenance?
Let me care for the grave of your loved one for you, with care and respect.
Need help with grave maintenance?
Let me care for the grave of your loved one for you, with care and respect.
Grave maintenance in and around Malvern, Worcestershire
With family graves many miles away, I understand what it feels like not to be in a position to maintain an important grave or visit it regularly. I love helping others in the same situation by ensuring that the graves of their loved ones look beautiful and cared for at all times. My inspiration comes from the German tradition of cemetery gardening. Services range from restorations of older graves to regular maintenance, including all horticultural and floricultural aspects of grave maintenance. I always work closely with families and tailor my work to their wishes.
Jutta Chisnall
Bespoke grave maintenance
Maintaining burial sites as places of rest and remembrance is what I enjoy. It is important to me that relatives can remember the person they came to see when visiting a grave, instead of thinking of all the work that needs to be done.
One-off services.
I pride myself in doing whatever is needed to maintain a grave in line with a family’s wishes.
Examples of one-off services are
- Headstone cleaning
- Planting a grave with suitable plants
- Liaising with stonemasons or undertakers
- Placing flowers on a grave
Regular maintenance.
I see myself as the eyes and hands of the family.
Services are tailored to the style of grave and the wishes of the family. Maintenance tasks include headstone cleaning, grass cutting, edging, weeding, leaf sweeping, litter picking, as well as caring for plants and replacing plants seasonally.
I believe in close communication with the family and will send updates, including photos, as well as advising on future work required.
Contact me.
Please get in touch so we can explore what I can do to help you.
jutta@cultorum.com
M: 07973-461 495
Grave restoration
Grave restorations can mean many different things, depending on the type and condition of a particular grave. For an urn grave, it may mean levelling and cleaning the plaque. For burial graves, substantially more work is typically needed, such as cleaning moss and lichen off all stonework to ensure inscriptions are legible, removing established vegetation, and sometimes minor repairs.
I will inspect a grave and advice on the work needed and the costs involved. I can carry out most of the work, but some jobs require the help of a stonemason.
Using my knowledge of plants and horticulture, as well as my practical abilities and creative skills, I ensure that the grave is brought back to a condition which is in line with the family’s wishes, as well as with the local environment and cemetery rules and regulations.
The cost of grave restorations varies widely, depending on the work involved. It may be as low as £50, but around £250 is more typical for a burial grave that has been badly neglected.
Grave maintenance
I visit graves that I look after at least monthly to carry out any work needed to maintain graves to a high standard. My work covers horticultural as well as non-horticultural aspects. I work on behalf of the family and will keep the family updated on the condition of the grave, work carried out and additional work that might need doing, and I carefully listen to families’ feedback.
Regular maintenance starts from £20 per month.
Floral tributes
I have had the fortune to work with a fantastic young florist in Malvern who taught me so much! All different styles of arrangement; hand-tied bouquets, posies, wreaths, garlands,… I love using flowers from my own garden, and I only use real flowers.
The sad sight of dead bunches of flowers lying on graves, or plastic holly wreaths in the middle of summer, is probably what first brought me to cemetery gardening. I will always remove any arrangement once it no longer looks attractive.
This page shows some examples of recent wreaths and flower arrangements.
