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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The label that comes on most plants found in plant nurseries contains lots of information useful to gardeners. Even experienced gardeners can benefit from reading tags because of the frequent ...

While clearing out the garden shed the other day, I found a box of dead batteries. I gave them away, free of charge. Batteries might not be a high priority in a garden shed, but materials to label ...

Plant labels - many options. Submitted. As gardeners we more than likely have visited a garden and asked the question, “What is that plant?” Many times the garden owner just gives you a blank stare.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Election Day is approaching, which means it is sign season again in Northeast Ohio. While exercising your First Amendment rights, the last weeks before the first frost in Northeast ...

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 ...

The rain just keeps coming. We continue to get dumpings of excess rain, and some gardeners are paying the price for poor drainage. Roots of many plants rot when rain piles up faster than it drains ...

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 ...