Window Shade Tags

the garden marker doesn’t wash off in repeated rain showers. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

Window Shade Tags

Maybe it’s because I kept tripping over an old shade stored in my garage. There’s definitely a measure of liking to repurpose. And now I enjoy seeing the cut down window shades as garden markers.

You don’t have to round one of the sides of the cut blinds but I do to make them prettier in a pot. The rounded edges also don’t poke back when I retrieve a tag stored in the old glass milk bottle

I also use an indelible marker so the plant names don’t easily wash off.

Round off one end with scissors and store for easy retrieval. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

There are more expensive and fancier plant tags around but these work just fine for me.

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Charlotte

Best Plant Tags

This plant tag is identifying a dwarf Gala apple tree on my hillside. (Charlotte Ekker Wiggins photo)

Best Plant Tags

Over the years I’ve used a variety of ways to identify plants. Cutting up old window blinds works well using an indelible marker pen but they don’t look very nice. Instead I now use these easy to write on metal tags.

These easy to use tags require only a ballpoint pen. (Charlotte Ekker Wiggins photo)

These metal tags easily hold up to a variety of weather conditions without damaging the dwarf fruit trees where I hang them.

I also have them on some key trees like Theodore the dogwood tree that took a couple of decades before growing much height.

Impress-O-Tags can be used for anything that needs to be identified. (Charlotte Ekker Wiggins photo)

I’ve had these tags for a number of years and don’t recollect where I first found them.

They work well for a variety of uses, not just plant identification.

Charlotte