Re: plant markers
At Oliver Nursery in Fairfield, CT (great place, esp. if you're into
rock gardens or want to see some beautiful displays) they told me that a
regular pencil works just fine on markers and lasts. Of course, most of
their plants get sold the same season, so I don't know how long a period
they've observed.
If you use zinc markers, I recommend that you use the kind sold by
A.M. Leonard, where the wires thread through holes punched in the plate.
By the way, I'm the one mentioned in their catalog ("One of our
customers told us about these markers...")! I recommended that they
carry the hole-type markers because the other kind (in which the plate
wraps around the wires) will pop off the next time somebody kicks it. I
can buy hole-type markers locally but the ones sold by A.M. Leonard have
had the sharp corners rounded off, an added bonus for accident-prone
gardeners (moi).
The pencils and pens sold specifically for marking the plates are
not weatherproof -- with the exception of the paint pen. It's permanent
and weatherproof -- but if you make a mistake, you're stuck with it. At
least, I haven't found any solvent that removes the ink.
As for going by memory--ha! I am having more "senior moments" all
the time. The only reliable thing is to sketch a map in your gardening
journal and write down what plants go where. But...where did I put that
darned journal?
Janet
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