Herb Gardening Tips: Make Personalized Garden Signs

By Theresa Loe
Published on August 1, 1998
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Does your garden speak to you? There are lots of ways to talk back. These old garden trowels are entertaining plant labels, a shovel proclaims your whereabouts, and a painted rock ensures that you won’t overlook the spearmint.
Does your garden speak to you? There are lots of ways to talk back. These old garden trowels are entertaining plant labels, a shovel proclaims your whereabouts, and a painted rock ensures that you won’t overlook the spearmint.
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Name that plant. It’s easy when you have a set of ­innovative plant labels like these. Flea-market finds such as wooden spoons and old silverware pop out of pots of culinary herbs. Tiny clay pots propped upside down on stakes (or resting on the soil of a garden bed) are a handy place to park that botanical name. Plant labels are also a good way to recycle metal scraps.
Name that plant. It’s easy when you have a set of ­innovative plant labels like these. Flea-market finds such as wooden spoons and old silverware pop out of pots of culinary herbs. Tiny clay pots propped upside down on stakes (or resting on the soil of a garden bed) are a handy place to park that botanical name. Plant labels are also a good way to recycle metal scraps.
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A garden sign is a versatile element in any
landscape. It can provide information such as a plant’s identity or
a garden’s theme, direct visitors to or through the garden, inspire
the gardener and visitors with a favorite quote or proverb, even
make us laugh.

I came to appreciate the importance of garden signs when my

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