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How to label plants in a memorial garden
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Posted by likesivy NC8 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 27, 07 at 2:35
| Does anyone have a success story about labelling plants? Our garden club maintains a small memorial garden adjacent to town hall. We need permanent markings that name the plant, the person memorialized, and sometimes the donor. The markers need to be weatherproof, look permanent, and not easy for anone to carry away. |
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RE: How to label plants in a memorial garden
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| I just saw a memorial garden that sounds similar to what you are describing. They used large granite stones/small boulders and had the names engraved into the stones. I imagine you could have that done at any monument company. |
RE: How to label plants in a memorial garden
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| We had a speaker at our meeting last night who suggested that the memorial/donor plaques not be attached to the individual plants in case the plant died. Her group felt that it could potentially be devastating if a plant donated in memory of deceased Grandma, whoever, became deceased itself. I don't know if I hold w/this theory - a plant is a plant, they can be replaced! |
RE: How to label plants in a memorial garden
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| Our memorial gardens at church are not labeled outside, but rather a diagram is kept in a hallway near the windows that look out. The garden then continues to look like a garden (rather than a species planting, with labeling), but each plant is still labeled with pertinent information. |
RE: How to label plants in a memorial garden
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| Snowgardener had a good idea. I was going to suggest something similar... sandblasting that info into a large stone. But, that can get expensive unless you have a MG who works in a monument company. We are fortunate here in that case. But even that would tap him too much for his generosity. Why not consider painting a sign. Aerial view. Plants numbered on the layout with a legend below along with the donors. Surely there's an artist in your group who would help with that. Just an idea.
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RE: How to label plants in a memorial garden
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| ah- now I would have to suggest copper flashing - get someone with a nice hand to write the information on a section of flashing, and it makes a lovely surface to emboss (well, chase, since you're working from the front)...but then the 'hard to remove' came up, and all I can think of are those motion-sensitive sprinkler heads, to keep the deer off your daisies? that's a lot gentler than a volunteer with a shotgun and rock salt....and still gets the point across. |
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