"Douglas" wrote in message
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"Victoria Clare" wrote in message
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Janet Baraclough.. wrote in
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I use a thin but indestructible copper label (sold by Lakeland
Plastics) indented by a biro. Anything else like seeds or cuttings
gets
a plastic label and pencil.

I use copper labels for everything. If you turn the label over and give
them a good hard rub with the rounded end of the biro, you can re-use it
almost indefinitely.

Also the copper annoys the slugs ;-)

Some copper labels seem to use 'harder' copper than others: I like the
squishier ones because they are easier to blank.

Victoria
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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What's all the panic?. I use ordinary white thickish plastic labels and
write on them with a Staedtler Permanent Lumocolour F or M ( fine or
medium).felt-tipped pen.
Five years of tests with different labels nailed to a sunny fence for my
friend the local Stationery shopkeeper are still there and as good as
when
they were written. Some of my young pears and plum trees have the same
plastic labels with the date 1988 printed on them and they are still well
readable though stained quite a bit. They are tied on with thin plastic
covered wire. I use B&Q thin covered wire , caged and wrapped inside a
bobbin mounted on a stiff card. The tail end comes out of a hole in the
front grille and is cut to length by a tin knife on the bottom of the
card..
I sling it from my neck to chest height.
I have about 45 clematis up my fences and walls, many roses, including
climbers, passion flowers, one big wandering Blackberry fifteen feet
either
side of the stem.And that's just the north side adjoining the Neighbour
thugs from Hell in the adjoining semi. Dotted along the fence also are
ten-year old plums and a
Greengage. Folks! - you just gotta mosey down that there garden centre
and
order one of these greengages called Dennistoun's Superb and are grafted
on
to Pixy rootstock. Mind you, - there's a wait of a year or six before they
start fruiting.
In the middle of the garden is my ham radio mast. . In the small plot at
its foot are planted *Wisteria Synopsis, and montana type clematis, - plus
about five other clemati: several tea-roses and ramblers. Near that is a
high pyracantha, pruned and sheared through the years to assume a flat
diamond shape and stands transverse across the garden, half -way along.
Alongside that is a high double boled (not 'poled') flowering cherry tree.
All are clothed with clematis.
Everything in my garden including the front are labelled. I get angry with
myself when I can't immediately state what the plant's name is. I used to
keep a book but the constant changes made a nonsense of it.
Doug.
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*"Wisteria Synopsis?" - how silly!, - but it wasn't me as done it guv! - it
wuz this 'yer Spell-checker,
'onest!. Wisteria Synensis
Doug.
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