Re:The perfect (but mythical) plant label

When I was at the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley, I
know they were testing plastic labels in the
greenhouse to see how long it took for the algae to
attack.

I've also used the small metal labels that you write
on in pencil.  The metal tag has a loop on either side
to slide onto the stake.  It was inconspicuous, yet
present if one wanted to read the name.  See this
link:
http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/7105-product.html

Good luck!
Bridget
Seattle, WA

--- Anthony Lyman-Dixon
<Lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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