Plus, labels inform visitors and passersby of the plant names, many of which are unfamiliar in more traditional gardens.

If you are an artistic sort, this would be a good time to make some hand-painted plant labels for your garden. Use outdoor-grade plywood or perhaps cedar for the markers. Vegetable gardens ...

You can buy plant labels or better still, make your own. As it turns out, mini-blind slats make fine pot labels. The slats are just about the same width as the labels that are sold in gardening ...

If your outdoor plant labels keep blowing away or breaking ... but they’re expensive. A good and free homemade solution is cutting old vinyl window blinds. Plastic laundry-detergent bottles ...