Plant Tags: Keeping Track of Plants at Riel House

Plants Tags in a Trading Cards Page Holder

There are many planting areas at Riel House and it has become quite onerous to keep track of what has been planted where and if there are specific maintenance tasks that need to be carried out. Putting the tags next to each plant is fine when the plant  is new, but after a couple of years of growth, mulching and potential removal, tags have a habit of disappearing. Placing the tags in an envelope encourages the envelope to be lost somewhere in the shed.

A solution: plant tags stored in the page holders used by collectors of trading cards (thankyou to woodyoak zone 5 Canada). As well, I will also attach a photograph of each page holder to the description of the bed in question.

Every spring, one reviews the details on each tag and then schedules any maintenance.

That's the plan!

(and of course, some of the larger plant tags require some judicial trimming and folding)