The Bunbury Cemetery Board is committed to providing safe and neat memorial gardens and cemetery grounds. They are a safe place of peaceful reflection and give all who visit the ability to grieve in a way they see fit.
Please review and follow these guidelines to keep the memorial gardens and cemetery safe, tidy and fair for everyone.
Memorial Gardens and Bushland Niche Area
- Remove old flowers and refresh artificial flowers regularly.
- No Glass or Porcelain- Vases, Jars, Ornaments, Bottles
- No unauthorised planting of vegetation
- Please do not pick flowers from the gardens
- No sharp metal objects and artificial flowers with wire showing
- No candles with naked flames
- Retain tributes within your boundary and do not impinge on neighbouring memorial space
- Maximum of 2 receptacles can be placed at memorial sites
Lawn and General Cemetery
- Remove old flowers and refresh artificial flowers regularly.
- No Glass or Porcelain- Vases, Jars, Ornaments, Bottles
- No unauthorised planting of vegetation
- No tributes to extend higher than 1m from ground
- No sharp metal objects and artificial flowers with wire showing
- No candles with naked flames
- Tributes are to remain on headstone bases and not at ground level
- No paving and tiles around headstone plinths are permitted.
Removal of Tributes
Although a highly emotive task, and one that the Bunbury Cemetery Board has no satisfaction in performing, all tributes will wither and weather.
It is necessary for BCB staff to remove tributes that have weathered and withered and not following the guidelines, to perform routine maintenance. This ensures the grounds are safely maintained to a high standard that enables the entire community to visit memorial grounds and cemeteries which are safe and tidy.
Items removed by BCB staff may be retrieved from the collection bays at each site.
The BCB reserves the right to dispose of items 4 weeks after being removed.
Please note that tributes removed by wind and birds cannot usually be returned to its place of origin
The Bunbury Cemetery Board is unable to accept responsibility for stolen, damaged or vandalised tributes and headstones
Please Don’t Litter
Bins have been provided in all sections of the Cemeteries and Memorial Gardens.
We ask for your assistance in removing withered or weathered tributes and placing them in the rubbish bins provided.
Please remove wrapping and rubber bands from floral arrangements before they are left as a tribute
For any queries relating to the flower and ornament policy please contact the office.