At The Woodlands, a mid-19th century cemetery that is a 54-acre oasis in Philadelphia, graves were designed to be planters. Today, volunteers cultivate a sense of history by tending to Victorian Era-style flowers at tombs erected “in the French style.” Tony Dokoupil reports.
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11 Comments
Let those flowers grow on top of my grave, you may stop by, and, stay.
But please, before you depart, take a flower, it is yours, for your time, and hopefully, to remember me.
Dig it 😉
I live across the street from The Woodlands.
This is a lovely piece. My Mother, Uncle, Grandmother and Grandfather are all buried at the Woodlands. I really need to go back and visit to see the wonderful work the Gardeners are doing.
I had no idea that was a concept from France… it's quite sophisticated as well as being therapeutic. Wonderful.
This is very eerie .Taboo even .Just not really a good thing to do .morally wrong.
Beautiful!
I love this idea!
I think it's a beautiful memorial for those buried there and beautifies each grave
I love this, what a lovely and inspirational thing to do.
This is very nice but the idea of people doing exercise in the grave is disrespectful to me .