Ideas wanted for fancy plant/herb labels

[amandaandherveg]

There's a Charity Open Garden Weekend in our village next month and my garden has been included.

I am racking my brain for some unusual/nice/fun/eyecatching ideas for plant/herb labels to replace my cut up milk carton efforts. What do you use or have seen that looks good?

[zazen999]

I use pebbles with things painted on.

[Edwardo82]

Slate also looks quite nice and it can be careful cut into shapes with a pair of clippers/cutters.

[Alice]

I like the blackboard labels in the link but they're a bit pricey.
You might want to splash your cash for the occasion.
Plant Labels

[kentvegplot]

Large pebbles would be my suggestion too. You can push them out of the way, until someone asks for the name of something and then you fish out the pebble!

[Flummery]

You can use thin lengths of wood with the name painted on, then varnished over.

I never use fancy plant labels. I tend to grow so many different things each year that I've never tried before that I'd end up with a shed full of fancy but unused labels! I do think they're good for charity stalls though!

[Snadger]

Like the pebble idea...........I may adopt that. My plot has white plastic 'tee' labels i bought from Tesco's but the pebbles look better.

Just had a thought......I have loads of old bricks, would they do................no, maybe not!

[taff]

cardboard stuck to wooden drinks stirrers, written on with gold or silver pen and a few curlicues.

[zazen999]

Like the pebble idea...........I may adopt that. My plot has white plastic 'tee' labels i bought from Tesco's but the pebbles look better.

Just had a thought......I have loads of old bricks, would they do................no, maybe not!

Yes!!!

We had several brick sample boards sent to us when brick matching for our wall; and I'm using the brick slivers to do the same thing. I think they are lovely!!!

[Florence Fennel]

I use plastic straws with a sticky label folded over at the top. They look like little flags.

[amandaandherveg]

Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions, lots of great ideas.

I was thinking of cobbling up my own version of the blackboard label idea. Perhaps I could try and get a couple of black vinyl floor tiles, cut them with a Stanley blade into rectangles, put them on dowels/sticks/canes and write on them using liquid chalk or silver and gold pens as per taff's suggestion. That way I could label all the herb pots at different heights.

Now I need to find a couple of back vinyl floor tiles.

[Snadger]

Yes!!!

We had several brick sample boards sent to us when brick matching for our wall; and I'm using the brick slivers to do the same thing. I think they are lovely!!!

So now all I've got to do is hire a Stihl saw and cut my bricks into slivers? Not bloomin likely!........it's whole bricks or nowt!

[COMPOST CORNER]

So now all I've got to do is hire a Stihl saw and cut my bricks into slivers? Not bloomin likely!........it's whole bricks or nowt!

Whole bricks might look nice at the edge of a bed, might try that myself. at least they won't blow away, looks like were in for another big blow tonight in the East Midlands!

[zazen999]

So now all I've got to do is hire a Stihl saw and cut my bricks into slivers? Not bloomin likely!........it's whole bricks or nowt!

Gosh - even Alys can cut bricks with a chisel and a hammer........chop them into 3 and get the paint out

[tamsin]

You can buy blackboard paint... wouldn't chalk wash off in the rain though?