Cat Memorial Trees
The Hazelnut Orchard was 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!
Cherry Blossom
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.
The first cat memorial tree was a vase-shaped Mount Fuji flowering cherry tree, with beautiful white blossom in the springtime. It was to celebrate Smoocher the ginger cat and his short, smoochy life at Mooseys.
The next tree was a Cornus (or Dogwood), named 'Eddies White Wonder', marking the spot where my 'white wonder cat' B-Puss was laid to rest in 2007.
Dogwood Eddies White Wonder
B-Puss :- Meet my eccentric white cat B-Puss.
Eddies White Wonder has beautiful white bracts in late spring, and wonderful autumn leaf colour. It seems to perfectly sybmolise my lovely white cat B-Puss
Both these cats were far too young when they left us, but their special trees (complete with irrigation drippers), like their memories, live on.
By September 2010 three more dearly departed cats had their trees planted in Cat memorial Row. The two grey sisters Jerome and Stumpy each got a weeping Silver Pear tree each, and little Mugsy with the orange and black face a Black Boy Peach tree. These three darling cats led long, happy lives.
Silver Pear Trees in the Orchard
Stu lamb, the pet lamb I reared in the September spring of 2010, regretfully didn't last very long. He was also buried in the Memorial Row, under a Golden Queen peach tree.
Stu Lamb's Memorial Peach Tree
There's no more room left in the Memorial Row. Cats more recently departed have been laid to rest in the house gardens.