Ideas for Memorial Garden Flowers for Your Baby

If you're searching for a way to memorialize your baby after a miscarriage or stillbirth, planting a memorial garden can be a beautiful option. Creating the garden can be a way to work through your loss. When your garden blooms again in upcoming years, you may find comfort and hope in it.

Choosing Flowers for Your Memorial Garden

When it comes to selecting the flowers for your garden, there are several factors to consider. For example, you might consider the types of flowers that grow best in your region and the size of your memorial garden. Certain flowers seem to lend themselves to memorial gardens, such as bleeding heart, forget-me-not, and baby’s breath. 

The Meanings of Flowers

Several cultures have assigned specific meanings to flowers, notably in Japanese tradition and in English Victorian tradition. These flowers with cultural meanings might be particularly appropriate for a child’s memorial garden. This list is by no means exhaustive but it can serve as a starting place to get you thinking about what flowers you'd like to include.

Birthday Month Flowers

Each month of the year also has one or more flowers associated with it. Choosing the flower for your baby’s birth month, due month, or conception month is another option for choosing meaningful flowers for your memorial garden.

Planting Your Favorite Flowers

While symbolism can lend a hand in choosing flowers for your memorial garden, there are no hard and fast rules that you have to include a flower for its symbolic meaning or association with a certain month of the year. If you have a favorite flower and it makes you think about your baby in a happy way, then absolutely use the flower that feels right to you. If you prefer vibrant reds to the more traditional whites or violets, those are the colors that you should include in your memorial garden.

If you have other children, you may plant a tree or flower for each of them to tend and watch grow, surrounded by the flowers that memorialize the child you lost. The most important thing to remember is that this should be a project that helps with your healing process. There are no "wrong" flowers to choose.