Winter is our slow season, and many gardeners begin to languish as January finishes and spring is still far away. It is important to keep busy. For me, this means reading gardening books and magazines ...

When you pick up a plant tag, it can feel like decoding a secret message. Those small labels hold key details about a plant’s size, care needs, and blooming habits, but they don’t always make it easy ...

Gardens in Northeast Ohio experience blazing sun, pouring rain, frost, wind, and the occasional hailstorm, causing plastic and even wooden tags to crack, warp, or fade. But the aluminum or steel ...

The point of plant markers is to remind you which seeds you planted where. The most basic marker can be a strip of wood with the plant name written on the side, but garden plant labels can be as ...

Old gardeners do die; it’s their plant labels that just fade away. Slapping name tags on plants is not as precious or affected as it sounds. The idea is not to imagine our humble plots as public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white plastic labels come in packs of 10 and are priced at Dollar Tree’s signature $1.25. With plenty of space to write plant ...

Repurposing household items as garden decor is an easy way to stretch your budget, and the finished products can be both fun and functional. For example, you can make plant labels from bamboo ...

Labels bring order to the riot of buds and blooms of every enthusiastic gardener's growing collection of fine plants. They have the same function as nametags at a big cocktail party. Garden plants are ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The quest for a plant label that lasts more than a couple of years is the gardener’s holy grail. False promises about ...