Almost all my roses have their tags intact WAMS.. If I lose that stem for some reason, then I put them on to another one.. I would like to have them on my roses as I keep moving the pots around..
I take mine off and put one or 2 handwritten tag sticks (Chinagraph pencil) into the edge of the pot. I have no tags in the garden. I did this after seein a DA video saying that the cane a tag is on will be damaged eventually. But I think the orange TCL tag is too ugly anyway.
I keep the tags on when growing the roses on in the poly but once they’ve been planted out I remove them @WAMS, but I do keep computer records of what I’ve planted where. They’re probably fine for a season, but you could always push a length of bamboo cane in the ground near each roses and attach the label to that. Or get creative and make your own 😊 I find the TCL paper ones disintegrate and fade fast, as well as being orange, so not much use.
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I remove labels but I have sometimes dug up a rose and found I left one on right at the base, buried.. I've not known it to be an issue.. in fact those who take over new gardens and want i.d's, will sometimes find an old label buried with the graft, if they rummage around a bit..
I used to put all mine in a bag - a large one - the other day I tipped them all out, horrified at the amount of labels, roses I've long since forgotten I ever had.. I immediately threw them all in the bin, disgusted at the amount I've spent over last 12 years here, and the waste..
I keep my lists up to date so I know what I've got, even so, I've got photos on my computer of roses I cannot remember which is which.. especially Austins..
Agree that it can be hard to ID them from the photos alone, Marlorena, esp the 999 million pink ones! How do people deal with this? I was thinking of keeping photos on the computer this year with a folder for each rose, but that does sound a bit too time-consuming and I doubt I'd keep it up lol
When I first started the garden I took a photographic survey of the beds in sections, then labelled the plants by inserting text boxes over each one. Easy to do with the edit facility on an iPad and no need for physical labels. It’s a useful way of keeping track of perennials and bulbs especially, to save accidentally digging them up over winter.
This is 5 yrs out of date now, time for a new survey!
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That's a nice picture Nollie.. I don't recall you saying much about Darcey Bussell..?
@WAMS I do keep my list on my computer, in something called Play Memories Home which is a Sony thing that came with camera.. puts them in alphabetical order and I keep most photos for each rose in their folders, but I take a lot of general shots too, and othertimes roses get put into general monthly folders, and it's there I lose track of which is which..
I also keep my list up to date on HMF, as I'm always checking things out.
o/t.. I've just ordered from Secret Gardening Club.. I've read about the issues, but they had some things I wanted, so took a chance..
I used to put all mine in a bag - a large one - the other day I tipped them all out, horrified at the amount of labels, roses I've long since forgotten I ever had.. I immediately threw them all in the bin, disgusted at the amount I've spent over last 12 years here, and the waste..
Not a waste, just think of the pleasure you have had from them over the years. I have a bag in the shed full of plant labels.
I draw a plan of my beds with the plants written in and I take photos that I hope match the plans. I'm not techy enough to do what @Nollie does. I wish I could do that on my laptop.
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If you can download your photos to your laptop @Busy-Lizzie then there probably is an easy way to do it, you need a handy young person to show you!
Darcy is still there Marlorena, I like the blooms and it’s reasonably heat tolerant, but it’s a martyr to black spot and there’s not much scent. It was a gift so I’ve been reluctant to get rid. I was about to bite the bullet then DA discontinued it - funny how things become more desirable when no longer available!
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I used to put all mine in a bag - a large one - the other day I tipped them all out, horrified at the amount of labels, roses I've long since forgotten I ever had.. I immediately threw them all in the bin, disgusted at the amount I've spent over last 12 years here, and the waste..
I keep my lists up to date so I know what I've got, even so, I've got photos on my computer of roses I cannot remember which is which.. especially Austins..
Agree that it can be hard to ID them from the photos alone, Marlorena, esp the 999 million pink ones! How do people deal with this? I was thinking of keeping photos on the computer this year with a folder for each rose, but that does sound a bit too time-consuming and I doubt I'd keep it up lol
This is 5 yrs out of date now, time for a new survey!
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I do keep my list on my computer, in something called Play Memories Home which is a Sony thing that came with camera.. puts them in alphabetical order and I keep most photos for each rose in their folders, but I take a lot of general shots too, and othertimes roses get put into general monthly folders, and it's there I lose track of which is which..
I also keep my list up to date on HMF, as I'm always checking things out.
o/t.. I've just ordered from Secret Gardening Club.. I've read about the issues, but they had some things I wanted, so took a chance..
I have a bag in the shed full of plant labels.
I draw a plan of my beds with the plants written in and I take photos that I hope match the plans. I'm not techy enough to do what @Nollie does. I wish I could do that on my laptop.
Darcy is still there Marlorena, I like the blooms and it’s reasonably heat tolerant, but it’s a martyr to black spot and there’s not much scent. It was a gift so I’ve been reluctant to get rid. I was about to bite the bullet then DA discontinued it - funny how things become more desirable when no longer available!