Labeling Your Plants for the Perennial Sale

Thank you for taking home (from the Gazebo clean-up) some divisions to "nurse" for the plant sale on Sturday, May 28.  Mine are looking fine and not needing much care except for watering with the windy days we've had recently. Many of us are also dividing our perennials and potting them up in our home gardens.  Hollye, Ellen, and Bonnie have been working in some gardens around town with Dig 'n Donate.

You'll need to label your plants when you bring them Friday night, May 27, to the plant sale set-up at the Congregational Church.  We've used many labeling systems over the years:  metal blind slats, stick-on labels for the pots, tongue depressors, and a fill-in-the blank card. All of these work and Holly thinks the metal blind slats written on with permanent marker are great.  Here's another choice from last year that is easy to use: 

Skewers, cardstock, and clear plastic packaging tape

We have a box of  labels pre-printed on card stock.  We can tape the label to barbecue skewers with clear package tape front and back, making them waterproof.  The skewers go in the soil in the pot and --Voila!-- the plant is labeled.  We just need to know what plants you may have to make this work.  Please check the list below to see if your plant's information card is already printed and filed in the label box.  If not, we'll make a new set of cards for that plant.

These are plants we have sold in the past:  Astilbe, Bee Balm, Bishop's Cap, Black-eyed Susan, Bleeding Heart, Bugleweed, Catmint, Colombine, Cone Flower, Coral Bells, Cranesbill, Daylily, Dead Nettle, Evening Primrose, Feverfew, Forget-Me-Nots, Foxglove, Gayfeather, Globe Thistle, Goldenstar, Goose Neck Loosestrife, Ground Phlox, Hakone Grass, Hardy Chrysanthemum, Hosta, Jacob's Ladder, Joe Pye Weed,  Korean Lilac (Dwarf), Lady's Mantle, Lamb's Ear, Lily of the Valley, Montauk Daisy, Obedient Plant, Ox-Eye Sunflower, Peonie, Pot of Gold, Rose of Sharon, Shasta Daisy, Siberian Iris, Spiderwort, Stonecrop, Summer Phlox, Sundrops,  Sweet Woodruff, Tickseed 'Moonbeam', Tiger Lily, Trout Plant, Vinca, Wisteria.  If you don't see your plant here, contact Dianne and we'll have a label ready for you Friday evening at set-up. Many thanks, Dianne and Hollye