George:
Hopefully for you, this will be my last request for some re-work for GA048 LABELS
for Vegetable Project Session 11.
Under the Forum topic ?Got down-time? Do plant labels/markers now?. Reply #12,
Feb. 15, 2008, JohnB posted his answers to some Label Questions that I had asked
prior, in this same Topic.
#1 is printed below:
1. You indicate you only mark shrubs and trees, would you consider labeling the
rest of your garden(s)?
With most of the perennials, I've inserted their nursery tag either close in to
the crown so it disappears under the foliage or mulch - or in the raised beds,
I've put these tags down behind the retaining wall or bricks so it's right in
front of you as you look into the bed (one can simply pull them up to look
at them). I've done it this way so that the planting bed doesn't look like a
"bird cemetary" (i.e. lots of little white headstones!).
I think John has made valid points in his answer to my question, and I would like
to see us be able to add a background color when making labels.
To illustrate let?s take US Orion 400-175 which is a 1-3/4?x4? label, on the right side
is a photo 1?x1?. The left side of the label is reserved for text and the area measures
approx. 1?x2?, above all there is one line of text.
Can a background of some color that will blend in with garden surroundings,
as perhaps light tan or light green, which can be placed behind the text, but leave
the area reserved for the photo in the white label background, so that the plant
photo reproduces as accurately as possible.
Hopefully, this would then end the problem with the ?bird cemetery? as John calls it.
In the vegetable garden it?s nice to have all those white markers, so that you can spot
them easily behind and in between the veggies. But for the ornamental gardens, they
stand out ?like a sore thumb?.
Have you got some ?tricks? in your bag, that can accomplish this?
Thanks for considering.
- Toby
