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Columbarium Gardens – A Beautiful Resting Place

A garden suite is a unique way to feature many interment and memorial options in a family-scaled garden setting.

What’s a family garden suite or family columbarium garden?

A garden suite is a separate cemetery section designed for families. . It can include:

traditional upright marker lots for casket and cremation burial
pillow marker lots for cremation burial
columbaria with low-maintenance, traditional landscaping

Each family estate suite can accommodate 10 to 50 interments with a combination of traditional and columbarium garden cremation burials.

These 6 unique suites fit together to create a visually appealing cluster layout in a cemetery. These clusters can be designed to include a family estate section that has a final resting place for hundreds of loved ones. Partitions or fencing can be incorporated into the cluster plan to show the distinct area of each family estate suite.

How Much Land is Needed for a Columbarium Garden?

Having a family estate cemetery section gives you a considerable increase in burial yield compared to traditional single-casket lots. For example, a cemetery section of 21 family estate suites (like the drawing below) will give you over 450 interments in a variety of casket lots, cremation lots, and columbarium niches. You only need 0.15 acres of land for this type of design. This is about the same amount of land needed for 100 to 130 casket lots based on a typical yield per acre.
If you have questions about a columbarium garden, contact someone from our sales team.

What are Some Advantages of Having a Columbarium Garden?

The family estate suites are designed for easy gravesite access for visitors, funerals, and memorial services.
Columbarium gardens are easy to access for routine cemetery operations like openings, closings, installing monuments or columbaria, general site maintenance, and snow removal.
Each suite has enough space for low-maintenance greens like small trees and shrubs, annuals, perennials, or ornamental grasses. You can also add memorial planters with seasonal displays into some suites—if you have paved courtyard surfaces, this works very well.

Architectural Partitioning

Choose from the many styles we can offer to suit your needs. Click on the links below for more information about our integrated family burial/columbarium garden suites. Each design has a unique set of standard features.

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