Common questions and their answers.

Q. What plants can I grow in Floramorial?

A. Floramorial contains a complete menu of plant nutrients for potted plants, container gardens, outdoor plantings, trees, shrubs, and vines. If you wish to grow cactus or orchids, please advise and a special mix will be provided.

Q. What if the plant dies?

A. Replace it. The life support system resides in the planting soil. The plant itself is the beneficiary. The memorial lives on.

Q. How can I be sure my Floramorial contains my loved one's ashes?

A. Your loved one's ashes are sent to Floramorial in a sealed container marked with your loved one's name and an assigned serial number. The serial number guides the process all the way back to you. You receive the shipment with an affidavit of compliance.

Q. How do I use Floramorial?

A. Instructions are sent with the product. Use it exactly as you would use any commercially packaged growing medium obtained from a local garden center.

Q. We are attracted to the idea of scattering the ashes of our loved one. Can this be done?

A. You can scatter Floramorial media just as you would scatter ashes. You are simply converting non-biodegradable ash into plant nutrient. You will be scattering seeds instead of stones.

Q. Doesn't cremation ash break down over time if I scatter it or if I use it to plant flora?

A. No, not really. Cremation ash is 70-75% bone tissue identified chemically as rock phosphate. It is insoluble and durable over geologic time (as in dinosaur bones). In the fertilizer industry, rock phosphate is mined, crushed, and converted into plant food using strong acid at very high temperature.

Floramorial causes this conversion to take place in the planting media using a biochemical catalyst which frees the phosphate to ionize and enter a living plant through its roots. This is an electrochemical process developed in conjunction with Dr. John Swiader, a researcher in horticultural science at the University of Illinois School of Agriculture.