I really enjoyed this post. I have a collection of photos I've taken over the years of plants as well as fungi in old cemeteries. You've inspired me to write about the wonderful diversity of fungi I've seen.
Interesting to see what plants grow locally to you David. In the local cemetery we have an invasive plant called wild garlic. It looks pretty, is good for wildlife but spreads everywhere via the smallest bulb. It's a painstaking job removing it in my own garden (more like getting under control rather than removing it)
Interesting post and great photos to go along with it. How many of your family members are buried there and how long have you been tending and visiting there? I recently found a quite overgrown cemetery with my ancestors in it, I am trying to get a contact for the association. I hope it still exists. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the lovely 'garden' these plants make.
The intensive conservation and documentation work began five years ago and grew organically with help from many people. The last photo in the article is of the marker for my Gr Gr Gr Grandmother Betsy Newton Morris. My cousin and I joke that we are somehow related to everyone there. Realistically I am related to a significant number of the pre 1860 burials. This is an early Presbyterian Scots-Irish cemetery and as you know they moved in groups during the early settlement period so a number of families are related in multiple ways. Massive pedigree collapse! If you want to see more, use the Facebook link in my "About" tab.
I really enjoyed this post. I have a collection of photos I've taken over the years of plants as well as fungi in old cemeteries. You've inspired me to write about the wonderful diversity of fungi I've seen.
Interesting to see what plants grow locally to you David. In the local cemetery we have an invasive plant called wild garlic. It looks pretty, is good for wildlife but spreads everywhere via the smallest bulb. It's a painstaking job removing it in my own garden (more like getting under control rather than removing it)
Interesting post and great photos to go along with it. How many of your family members are buried there and how long have you been tending and visiting there? I recently found a quite overgrown cemetery with my ancestors in it, I am trying to get a contact for the association. I hope it still exists. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the lovely 'garden' these plants make.
The intensive conservation and documentation work began five years ago and grew organically with help from many people. The last photo in the article is of the marker for my Gr Gr Gr Grandmother Betsy Newton Morris. My cousin and I joke that we are somehow related to everyone there. Realistically I am related to a significant number of the pre 1860 burials. This is an early Presbyterian Scots-Irish cemetery and as you know they moved in groups during the early settlement period so a number of families are related in multiple ways. Massive pedigree collapse! If you want to see more, use the Facebook link in my "About" tab.