Cat Memorial Trees

The Hazelnut Orchard is the perfect place for dearly departed cats to have their final resting places, complete with memorial trees. Not that I want too many of these, you understand!

In earlier garden years the Moosey tradition was to plant memorial roses. Concerned that this was just another excuse to buy more roses, something more serious and lasting seemed appropriate.

Smoocher :

Meet Smoocher, my wonderfully smoochy ginger cat.

So far I've planted two cat memorial trees. One is a vase-shaped Mount Fuji flowering cherry tree, with beautiful white blossom in the springtime.

It's in honour of Smoocher the ginger cat and his short, smoochy life at Mooseys.

B-Puss :

Meet my eccentric white cat B-Puss.

The second, smaller tree is a Cornus (or Dogwood), named 'Eddies White Wonder', marking the spot where my 'white wonder cat' B-Puss was laid to rest in 2007.

Eddies White Wonder has beautiful white bracts in late spring, and I love it to bits (just like I love B-Puss).

Both these cats were far too young when they left us, but their special trees (complete with irrigation drippers), like their memories, are still growing strong.

+20+20In honour of my cats' memorial trees (now this is getting complicated) I'd like to give both Smoocher and B-Puss some extra bonus points (twenty each) in my Most Valuable Pet Competition. Deceased cats are at a disadvantage in the MVP...