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Graveside flower delivery in Iowa
A local Runner places a hand-crafted arrangement at any grave in Iowa and sends you the photo, wherever in the country you are.
- Placed by local Runners
- Any cemetery, all 50 states
- A photo after every delivery
Iowa's cemeteries are small-town cemeteries: a few acres on the edge of every county seat, with Woodland in Des Moines, Oakland in Iowa City and Keokuk National Cemetery among the larger ones. The state's children have left for the coasts and the cities for a century, and the graves are still here.
Cold winters, hot summers and a mowing season that runs from April to October. Every arrangement is hand-crafted in outdoor silk so it survives both extremes. Most cemeteries clear decorations in early spring and again before winter. Our guide to cemetery flower rules explains how to check a specific cemetery's dates.
Placed in Iowa, photographed at the headstone
Every delivery ends with a photo like these, sent to the family and kept on the memorial page.
National cemeteries in Iowa
Fresh flowers are welcome at a national cemetery any day of the year. Silk arrangements are placed in the permitted windows: the winter months and about ten days either side of Easter, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Your Runner follows each cemetery's posted dates.
Keokuk National Cemetery
Keokuk, IA
VA national cemetery, established 1862. Fresh flowers any day; silk in the permitted windows.
Some cemeteries in Iowa where we have placed flowers
A few of the places our Runners have been, each linking to a memorial page with the delivery photos. Any other cemetery in the state works the same way.
- Ainsworth Cemetery
- Davenport Memorial ParkDavenport, IA
- Glendale Cemetery
- I.O.O.F. Cemetery
- Mount Calvary Cemetery
- Riverside CemeterySpencer, IA
The Iowa cemetery calendar
What holds up, and when the grounds crews clear, in this climate.
Spring (April to May)
The spring clean-up comes in April once the ground thaws. Easter, Mother's Day and Memorial Day deliveries placed after it stay through summer.
Summer (June to September)
Hot, humid and mowed weekly. Flowers belong in the vase or on the stone; lighter silk colors fade slowest in full sun.
Fall (October to November)
Mums and harvest colors for Thanksgiving. Many cemeteries clear in late October or November before snow; deliver after.
Winter (December to March)
Snow and hard freezes. Turning vases are stored; a saddle or an evergreen arrangement against the stone stays above the snow. Silk does not mind the cold.
Flowers at a grave anywhere in Iowa
Choose an arrangement and a date. A local Runner places it and sends you the photo.
Send FlowersQuestions about Iowa deliveries
Yes. City, county, church, private memorial parks and the veterans cemeteries. Give us the cemetery name and the name on the headstone; a Find a Grave link helps the Runner find the grave.
In the permitted windows: roughly mid-October through mid-April and about ten days either side of Easter, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Fresh flowers are welcome any day. Your Runner follows the posted dates.
A silk arrangement lasts from the spring clean-up to the fall one, through heat and frost. Fresh flowers last days.
A photo of the arrangement at the headstone is emailed to you after every delivery and added to the memorial page for the family.
Guides
- The First Visit to a Grave After the Burial: What to Expect and What to Bring →
- Flowers for a Mausoleum Crypt or Columbarium Niche: What Fits and What Is Allowed →
- How to Create and Manage a Find a Grave Memorial for a Loved One →
- Jewish Grave Customs: Why Stones Instead of Flowers, and What Is Appropriate to Send →
- Sending Flowers to a Grave for a Friend: When Their Loved One's Grave Is Far From You Both →
- What to Do With Funeral Flowers After the Service →