Rose Urns

These rose urns are for the person whose garden was the first thing visitors walked around, and whose roses were cut for every family table for forty years. This collection includes the Rose, Rose II, and Rose Buds designs in cast aluminum or handcrafted wood, available in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes.

We offer engraving for our aluminum and Signature alder wood pieces, making a name and dates part of the design. A rose is the flower people give when they do not have the words.

You may remember how they moved through the garden, or how the dining table looked each week when the freshest blooms were brought inside. Their hands knew the soil and the seasons, tending to the life that grew in the quiet corners of the yard.

A rose requires more than just sunlight. There is the unglamorous work that happens in the cold of February, the careful pruning and the constant attention to feeding and the management of blackspot. It is a labor of patience that remains largely unseen until the warmth returns.

They understood that beauty requires that steady, quiet devotion. Just as the garden rewards that care every June, their presence remains a constant, returning to your thoughts in the same way the blooms return to the stems, reliable and unbidden.

Our collection honors this cycle through three distinct designs: Rose, Rose II, and Rose Buds. For those who prefer metal, the cast aluminum urns are available in painted finishes or in a hand-applied enamel with silver bands. The wood options include the Signature line, crafted from solid alder, and the Prestige line, which features a printed artwork panel on walnut.

There are many ways to hold a memory. You might choose a full-size urn, a sharing urn for the whole family, or a keepsake urn to keep close by. Each piece is designed to hold what you hold most dear, whether it is a single tribute or several pieces held in common.

A rose is often given when words fail to capture what is felt. We can make that sentiment permanent by engraving a name and dates directly into the aluminum or the Signature alder wood. On our aluminum pieces, this engraving appears as a two-tone detail, ensuring the identity of your loved one is woven into the design.

The most famous roses ever painted were grown in one garden. Pierre-Joseph Redoute, a Flemish-born painter working in France, recorded the roses of the Chateau de Malmaison, the garden of the Empress Josephine. His plates were published as Les Roses, and the stipple engravings made from them are still the pictures most people have in mind when they picture a rose.

For your family, the design on the urn is the garden the person kept, and the flowers that come back every year without being asked.

Source: Wikipedia, Pierre-Joseph Redoute

If the person you remember lived with that steady devotion and a quiet patience, then these designs will recall the life they led. A friend or a child will see in the design the result of the unglamorous work they did to make the garden thrive. The decision of how to remember them belongs to your own memory.

There was a time each June when the roses were cut and placed upon every table in the house.

Our guide to selecting the right size urn