I use the Paw Paw Everlast Label with the name plate that attaches to the U shaped legs. I use my Brother Labeler to put the info on the name lable.

I use same method as daylilydayzed.

I make copper tags for each of my perennials. I buy the tooling copper which is a soft copper sheet usually 12" wide. I cut it with scissors into 1" x 2" pieces and holepunch the corner. I cut a wire clothes hanger into 5 pieces and use one piece of wire for the stick.

The tooling copper is soft enough to indent with a pen. The names will be there always. I poke the stick part down into the ground to ground level. I do not like names sticking up in the air. If I want to know the name it is easy to find it because in my garden the name tag is immediately behind the plant.

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Brenda

1/2" plumbing grade pvc pipe cut in 18" sections. I use the Brother PT labeler. Each pipe is hammered into the ground 8-10". These are not noticeable once the foliage grows and last for years. (Must be plumbing grade --- regular pvc will crack and yellow over time.)

Wow, Brenda, I really like your idea. I'm going to have to try that one! I desperately need to label my daylilies, now that I've passed 50 plants, and I'm not likely to stop buying more any time soon.

Laurel

With all the new kinds of plants in my yard I have the same problem. I have found it hard to remember names unless I have seen the plant bloom numerous times. Even then, I may not remember.

I also like it when I have garden tours and people are curious about the name of a plant they do not have to rely on me to know the name, they just have to go pull out the tag, clean it off and read it.

Question re: plumbing grade PVC pipe. What kind of material is it made of and how expensive is it to label each plant? My copper tags cost about 5 cents each.

Brenda

Here are my labels. I started with just the pipe and had to practically lay on the ground to see them. They will be hidden by foliage when the dls are blooming. Other times I don't care. The pvc pipe is cheap, you can cut it the length you want. Lowes sell the T's in a bag of ten for 2.39, I think.....Ellie

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I use the same method as Brenda but instead of copper (which I looked for and could not find) I use aluminum flashing from Lowes, cut it with scissors and write on it with a paint pen marker. I can include lots of information beside the name when I write on both sides. So far the writing has held up for 3 years. I also like to use the coat hangers for pants that have the cardboard. When the cardboard is removed the ends are already bent and I only have to bend them a little bit more after cutting the wire on both sides of the curved hanger. I get two stakes per clothes hanger so mine stand up above the ground a little bit but are well concealed as I do not like to see the labels. I use a large head nail (so I don't miss with the hammer) to punch a hole in the aluminum. I also use this technique to label apple trees but hang the label from fencing wire that I loop around a limb.

Thanks for everyone's ideas

Sue

If you do any cross pollenating, I think what I do is really good. It might work for you in general, but it might not. Anyways, I go to Meijer and go to the bulk candy and take some of their ties that have the section on them to write the bin number. I tear off all of the paper except for about one 1inch long section and write a letter A-Z on it and then I go and write that letter onto a note card that tells me what it is. Like if I put D on the daylily, I can go and write D on the note card and put the name of plant on it. Along with that, you have room to put any notes that you want on it and often enough any store will have a container that you can store them all in so then you have them all with you when you need them

Matt

I like the idea of using the Ts with the pvc pipe but for me, adding any more money to a label just wouldn't work. I already had the Brother Labeler. I have well over 1000 of these markers on my farm at this point marking daylilies, other perennials and vegetables.

The plumbing grade pvc is a little more expensive than the other, but doesn't degrade in the sun and critters don't chew on it. The last time we bought it, we paid a little over $1.00 for 10' lengths. The markers are easily re-usable. You can just pull the labels off and re-label them.

Goood suggestions and they work.

I would like to add an idea to the others--buy a roll of
surveyor's tape - it is cheap and looks almost like ribbon, but very light weight. Cut required length for the plant name and bury it with the plant. THEN, if something happens to the name tag that is stuck in the ground--you can identify the plant by digging into the hole its in. Oh
yes, use a grease pencil to letter the name on the tape. This tape doesn't deteriorate either.

So many untoward things can happen to those labels. I
started doing this and it has helped several times. Kay

Kay, that's a great idea! Last winter the town snow plow hit my rock wall and knocked bolders onto my DL bed. Well, all my markers were torn up as well as the mulch. The snow was deep and markers are white, what a mess!! Fortunately, thanks to my fifteen year old daughter, who put together a tutorial on how to post pic's for Christmas, I was able to match plant/marker.
Marilyn

Great idea about Burying the tape. Just were do you get surveyor's tape?