I love these tags.

I can go you one better than the sharpie. Write the info with a regular #2 pencil! It will not fade, rub off, wash off, or bleed into oblivion! It will be there in 5 years, but you can erase it and re-use the tag.

Janie

What a great idea Thanks

Don't bother using a Sharpie. It fades within a couple months. Pencil lasts much longer.
Karyn

Mini blinds are good, but I use thick alumninum foil,like coffee can tops, by using a ball point pin to write with. The indentation on the foil will never fade. bill w.

I use a strip of copper shim stock(bought on e-bay). I cut it with a pair of scissors, and then I use a hole punch to punch a hole in it and insert a stake into it and poke it into the ground. You can use a pencil or ink pen to engrave it into the copper. I found this to be really useful.

I got hold of an old set of venetian blinds - aluminum, with baked-on(?) enamel paint - brown on one side/white on the other. You can write the name on the white side with pencil &/or scribe/scratch the info into the paint on the brown side with a nail - making it a permanent label.
I often bury this label in the mulch at the base of the tree, always in the same position - north side - so that it can't be blown away or eaten by deer.