What do you think this means?

[cakeandcustard3]

Hi

i was walking my dog through the large country park in our town. She was running about off the lead and I was on my phone. Just the same route and routine as we go everyday. I suddenly noticed one of the huge trees had a large bouquet of flowers tied around it. There was no card or note.

what would your first thought be as to why they were there? My initial thought was that someone had lost their life and it was a tribute and maybe marking the date (tragically there had been several suicides in the park in recent years, I don’t know specifically what part of the park as it’s over 200 acres but certainly there have been many) however I mentioned it to my boyfriend and he said don’t be utterly ridiculous it won’t be something as dark as that and that it could be something as simple as someone’s favourite tree.

whatever it is, it’s a beautiful bouquet of flowers and clearly means a lot to someone but I suppose I was just curious- what would you think it would be? Am I looking for something much more serious than it realistically could be?

Somebody died there.
I wanted to paint my old bike white and use the basket for a flower planter then I was told they are memorials, or "ghost" bikes where somebody was killed on a bike.

Of course he knows, but much nicer to show the nature and other beauty than pointing out every 2 meters is where someone killed themselves or a bench to show who died

A death. Not necessarily there… maybe as a PP said that's where the ashes were scattered, but it'll most likely be a death.

I once got really freaked out for a moment by of a bunch of flowers, because of that association.

A couple of days before, there had been a car accident in front of my house, and one of the cars involved veered right through the brick front wall of my garden and finished up almost touching the house (to be fair, it's only a few feet from the front wall). When I opened my front door, I was face to face with the dazed driver. Nobody initially seemed seriously hurt, but I called the people you're meant to call anyway, dealt with the situation as you'd expect, and afterwards started the admin and clearup process.

So when, a couple of days after the accident, somebody I didn't recognise approached my house with a bunch of flowers, my heart sank — I wondered if someone had been more badly hurt than I'd realised, and this person had come to lay flowers at the site. Happily, they just wanted to give me flowers as a kind of combined "sorry about that" and "thanks for being fairly reasonable, all things considered, about a car nearly driving into your living room" 🤣 Even after she knocked on the door, it took a few moments for me to be sure that she wasn't asking for permission to lay flowers by my front path. It was a lovely gesture, though, once I'd worked out nobody was dead

Huh ghost bikes??

I've seen flowers to a tree and that's definitely death remembrance not someone trying to court a tree

I've not seen white bikes?? I live in a big city so I'm not sure how if this is a common thing I haven't

"he said don’t be utterly ridiculous it won’t be something as dark as that and that it could be something as simple as someone’s favourite tree."

If he knows they're floral tributes he shouldn't be calling her "utterly ridiculous" for saying that's what she thinks they are.

It'll be death-related, certainly. It certainly could easily be the spot at which they died, but it could also just be a place that was meaningful to them. Either way it'll be a floral tribute to a dead person.

Does your boyfriend inundate you with flowers, if he thinks that even trees get the odd bouquet?

Does he also think people give bouquets to their favourite lampposts and railings by the side of the road?

Does your boyfriend often try and ridicule things you say @cakeandcustard3?

No one gives their favourite tree some flowers 😂

@FictionalCharacter yes I'm sorry I didn't make that point at all with what I wrote 😞

They look like this. I don’t recall seeing any in the UK but it seems like they’re a common tribute/memorial for road accidents in the US and Canada. The worst is when it’s a child’s bike.

Doesn’t your bf mean though that someone put flowers on the favourite tree of the person who died in Rembrance rather than it specifically marking the spot at which they died?

I doubt he meant someone just gave the tree flowers without it being an act of remembrance of some kind.

No I would not always assume death a lot of time yes but not always