Today it is just a little busier than other days at the Geestmerloo nature cemetery in Koedijk. Families, large and small, gather at the entrance with the most colorful flowers, to commemorate deceased mothers. Because that too is Mother’s Day. “We are here for my mother, who died last February and is buried here,” says Marloes Munster, who hung a number of flowers on the tree with her family.
Together with her father, two brothers and the children, she met to commemorate their mother. With the help of Dad, the little ones put the self -brought flowers in the flower tires, which hang around the trees. “It is not that I want to put flowers with my mother every week, but once a year I find it special to think about it and to think about it.”
No flowers on grave
These flower tires were specially made for Mother’s Day, because it is not allowed at the nature cemetery to lay flowers on the grave of deceased. “This is only allowed with a funeral. Then it is intended that nature takes over the grave, so we do not want to disturb that by putting down flowers,” says employee Caroline Oostveen.
For the sisters Lillian and Karen it is the second Mother’s Day without their mother, and that’s why they come along with the whole family with flowers. It still doesn’t get used to their mother died so suddenly two years ago. “We just saw people cycling with a bunches of flowers under our arm to drink coffee with their mother, and we actually do the same, but without being there physically,” says Lillian Blokker.
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