Re: Label suppliers?

In a message dated 8/6/02 3:12:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lindsey@mallorn.com writes:

<<    I really like the zinc labels because they last and aren't too
    obtrusive.  Aluminum labels (like Frank suggested) are too 
    shiny for me >>

After you get a label in place in front of a small plant and the plant then 
grows about three feet high and several wide and the label is somewhere in 
that jungle, why have that label?  Unless you are a public garden, all these 
labels, you mention 1,000, can become a nightmare.

Somebody around here invented a label answer that is very good if you have 
the patience to sit down and make a bunch. You get grey/brown vinyl siding 
from some construction, the landfill or heaven forbid buy it.  Then you cut 
pieces about one to one and one half inches wide and around ten inches long.  
Or any size you like to work with.  Vinyl siding lasts one million years and 
never goes away.

Then you round off the top of this strip and punch a hole in the tip large 
enough to put a finger through.  Then you write with a paint marker or any 
marker you like all the information wanted and shove it underground next to 
the plant.

You never see these markers and being underground the sun and rain do not 
destroy the writing.  You put a finger through the hole punched and pull it 
up any time you like.  Otherwise it is there forever and does not show in the 
garden.  This particular color is a "disappearing" color.

The only drawback if that it is for you and does not inform visitors. 

This procedure was passed out at some meeting I attended so I brought it home 
and had my husband make a batch.  They are very useful when one uses them.  
More often, I bury the original tag right along with the plant.  One admits 
to some disorder now and then.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4  

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