Hello from Label Land!
I’ve been thinking about what to do with my pile of plastic plant labels….
I’ve been thinking about it for far too long…they’ve just been sitting and sitting and sitting, waiting in that limbo between a good idea and the dustbin.
Sometimes, just sometimes the planets align and the something gets done. In this case, the Babety slept longer than usual, I had found a particularly lovely builders merchant who could cut bits of plywood to size for me, and I had run out of Curb Your Enthusiasms to watch….So I got off my bottom and collected a hammer and some pins
Attached some plywood to the side of my shed:
…and started banging in labels.
It’s a can of worms, you understand, because the ply is forgiving in some places, and hard as nails in others. I ended up using drawing pins but it’s still a nightmare. Of course, I should start again, using pin-board and finish the thing in half an hour, but I’m desperate to have it outside, and pin-board would rot most horridly…so I shall carry on.
What do you do with your plant labels?
Do you make umbrellas out of them?
Or perhaps jewellery?
Or are you a non-hectic, well balanced person who throws them in the bin?
x
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Mine are in 2 places – all neatly filed in scrapbooks with date of planting, price paid, planting & care notes, date of death (if applicable) etc etc.
Then I gave up being organised and I also have a large basketful in the wardrobe!
A fantastic idea, though you may want to review the location as the plastic goes brittle after a couple of years and the picture can fade in the sunshine – this knowledge has been gleaned from my vegetable labels used up at my allotment as row markers…
Oops – looks like I have not 2 but 3 locations!
Right VP…that’s decided then – If they’re going to fade anyway then I’m bringing the whole lot indoors and onto a pin board – less punishing but I’ll have to build a special room for it!
I think they look fantastic all together like that; a great show of colour. I wouldn’t say I have a great collection of plant labels, and i’m not particularly well-balanced (!) but wouldn’t that make a great textile print?
Photograph them, transfer those photographs onto fabric…who knows?
Great website btw!
You know what Garden Hero…yes it WOULD make a great textile…thanks for adding to my list!
I have them all in a flower pot and they make me happy when I spot them in there…how crazy is that!
A textile would be lovely, which you could then make into giant floor cushions for the garden, the squashy square ones that the organised people have xx