Re:The perfect (but mythical) plant label

Hi Richard and everyone

Could anyone ever deny that " the indestructable, perpetually readable, but
unobtrusive plant label."  is the ultimate gold at the end of the rainbow?
Has anyone ever found it or at least created an acceptable substitute?
Coincidentally we were discussing the problem this morning. We have the
British branch of the MGS visiting the nursery at the end of the month and
it would be nice to be able to show them something more pleasing than the
brittle, stained, mildew-attacked and ridiculously expensive plastic labels
we have used up to now. Perhaps the best I have seen were  round white
stones with the plant names written on them in black paint, but we would
need a truck load and they would make the place look like the sea shore
which isn't really the image I am looking for.

Anthony


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RStarkeson@jschlesinger.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Mystery vine ID


> Thanks to Joe an Moira for the plant ID's.  The yellow flowered vining
plant certainly is Philadelphus mexicanus.  Growing in my garden, but
something I did not remember planting.  I was convinced a bird must have
seeded it there, until I looked at my computer listing of plants, and found
a record of its purchase.  The computer remembered, even if I didn't.  Like
quite a number of other plants which have lost their labels, the plant
became an "unknown".  An argument for the indestructable, perpetually
readable, but unobtrusive plant label. Now that I know this plant, it will
not really need a label.  Living in the climate I do I can also grow (with
water) rhododendrons, of which I have a number of  "unknown" varieties now.
I can easily identiy them all as rhododendrons, but with 1000's of
cultivated varieties, many of which look alike in photographs, some of them
shall probably forever remain unknown.
>
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