Labels that won't fade?
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Need a fragrant yellow rose that won't fade, please oh please.
Comments (5)Because I pampered it for 3 years from a 4 inch tall little band plant and it never grew more than 3 feet tall. Then it died suddenly. If I could buy Marachel Niel on rootstock I'd buy another in a heartbeat. From what I read from another gardener who dug up a 9 foot tall M.N the rootball on the plant was no where near large enough to support its' growth, which is why it died. Rootstock= more vigor. I'm considering Lichtkonigenigin Lucia' because its' available on rootstock and would grow to be six feet tall in a year or two, and I am aware of my own mortality these days. Thanks for answering, I've never smelled / Allgold' does it have a mixed floral scent? or lemony? or??? Lux...See MoreFaded labels = A garden of unknowns
Comments (15)I think its fun to run around and plant at random and then be surpirsed by the unknowns when they bloom and you can best identify them. I have this experience alot because I travel so much and gather seeds from everywhere I go from plants that appeal to me on the road. This year I have five unkowns from Vermont and one unknown from Montana that I am anxious to see bloom. If I find I have miss located them that's not really a problem. I just dig them and move them if they are perennials and if they are annuals I just gather the seeds and move them the folowing year by seeding them in a more sensible place. I use to be pretty anal about color and height and coordination and texture and spacing and blah blah blah. Now I'm a messy gardener and plant wherever the heck I feel like it. Instead of having 30-40 types of plants in well coordinated, picture pefect gardens, I now have 2 acres of well over 300 varieties of flowering plants planted cottage garden style for splash of color and fun eye appeal in almost any direction I look in my yard at all times in the growing season!...See Morelooking for a marker that won't fade and is waterproof..
Comments (9)I've been using a black Sharpie marker pen that uses more permanent ink than their regular kind. It's labeled INDUSTRIAL Super Permanent Ink, "formulated for industrial, laboratory, and commerical use". I label my orchids with it and my oldest label, about 7 years old, is still legible. The label sits within the potting media so it gets and stays wet, fertilized, etc. Labels written with a regular Sharpie fades in a year or two....See MoreLabeling Quilts
Comments (11)All this discussion reminded me that waaaay back in the recesses of my addled brain was a dim memory of reading that if you adhere fabric to freezer paper you can run it through a printer. I think that's, essentially, what I bought -- 4 pieces of muslin stuck on freezer paper for $10. Some racket! So I got some freezer paper and ironed a piece of cotton that I had washed to remove the sizing onto it and put it through my ink jet printer. It printed just fine. I got a clear -- if not vibrant -- image with no ink bleeding. I heat set the ink as the directions on the commercial labels instructed me to do. I could not scratch any of the text away with my fingernails. I pulled the fabric off the freezer paper and scrunched it up and straightened it out and the image was still clear and not deteriorated. Then I cut the fabric in half and wet half of it -- no detergent or aggitation, just wet -- and the image is gone. GONE. So, now I know I can experiment with fabric scraps without spending $2.50 a sheet to do it. But I haven't made any progress on getting a permanent label. The fabric I used was a very light batik print. Tomorrow I'll get some white cotton and whatever ink fixatives I can come up with and start experimenting. I'll post some pix....See Moremorz8 - Washington Coast
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