14-07-2003, 08:52 PM
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Plant Labels - from used aluminium cans
In article , wrote:
Dwight Sipler wrote:
The strips of aluminum can will have sharp edges, so you might want to
bend them over to avoid hazards to small children and pets.
I think cutting up a bleach jug and using a permanent marker might be a better
idea. No sharp edges and the plastic lasts a long time. Could be a use for
old floppies too. Thread a wire or string through the hole and write on the
floppy with a marker.
I'm picturing a garden decorated with cut-up Budweisser cans & Clorox bottles.
How 'bout making an elaborate paper collage with the name of each plant
somewhere on the collage, imbed the collage in a block of fiberglass
resin, mount the block of resin on a three foot length of rebar, & pound
these in the ground in front of each plant.
OR, buy a kiln to manufacture your own bathroom tiles but adapted as
garden tiles, each tile glazed with naive images of flowers, & the name of
the plant, & these would be strewn about in the garden in from of each
plant.
OR, with copper wire & the tiniest glass beads, use needlenosed pliars to
shape a length of beaded wire into the name of the plant. Nail this to the
top edge of a one-foot-long chunk of two-by-four & cement the other end of
the 2x4 into the ground near the labeled plant.
OR, with a woodburning kit make Buddhist gravemarkers our of slats, with
the names of flowers instead of the dead burnt right into the slats. If
you're worried the wooden slats will rot in a few years, then get plastic
toy airplanes in all sorts of colors, & use the woodburning kit to melt in
the names of the plants on the wings of the airplanes & hang them from the
appropriate plants.
-paghat the ratgirl
--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/
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