July 6, 2010The Dead Plant Society
Graham Rice has a good name for all the plant tags stuffed in a coffee can for whose actual plant parents have gone missing—he calls them his Dead Plant Society. We’ve all got something like it, a plant tag bucket or drawer that we shuffle through every so often.
I love it when I come across tags of plants that I can’t remember planting at all, and I’m sure I’ve never seen in my garden. Those are the ones that must have croaked immediately. I hate it when I come across tags of pink flowering plants, grrrr, since I’ve banned pink from my landscape. Must have been suffering from sun stroke when I bought those. Oh, what could have been.
Have any plant tag stories to share?
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Lydia Plunk says:
Ohhhhh! I see a label I didn’t keep. Or maybe just can’t find. Either way- now I know what to call Peppermint Schnapps when I go past her later on.
Posted on July 6, 2010 at 8:13 am.
annette says:
I was just clearing my what use to be a large cookie tin of plant labels and tags and found lots of plants I don’t remember seeing in the garden! What the… Then there are the tags that remind me that my memory needs them to remember the names of each plant. Love gardening, just can’t remember names.
Posted on July 6, 2010 at 9:22 am.
Lynn Salinger says:
My hundreds of plant tags fall into basically three categories:
1. stuff that did fine
2. stuff that got really big
3. and stuff that never had a chance in zone 9B
Posted on July 6, 2010 at 9:54 am.
Cynthia says:
I never keep plant tags, but they stay in the ground and I find them several years later. And of course I never remember planting them.
Posted on July 6, 2010 at 12:08 pm.
Susan says:
They’re not plant tags.
They’re tombstones.
Posted on July 6, 2010 at 6:14 pm.
JT says:
I’m slightly obsessive, so I put the month and year on tags with permanent marker and store them in a shoebox (converse all star). Every once in a while I look through them for the name of something still growing I’ve forgotten; it’s also good to be reminded of the froofy stuff that didn’t make it so I’m not tempted again by such frivolity . . . Ha Ha.
Posted on July 10, 2010 at 10:07 am.
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Dicksey says:
Of course I keep a label pot! Doesn’t everyone??! I prefer to think of it as my OTHER memory bank! As the years join me, I can’t always bring to the front of my brain that exact plant name…but I know where to look in an instant;-)When I run across a label for something I know longer have, the recall of why is usually one of love/hate - as with most memories. Happy gardening!
Posted on July 6, 2010 at 7:54 am.