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Went to the above in Loughborough today. Twas just a display show not a competitive one, of early Spring bulbs. The nursery stands had some really good displays, especially of different forms of Snowdrop, but generally it was a bit disappointing. Did not take one single photo! BUT did buy plants for the Crevice Garden, over £60 worth to be exact!. Whoosh!
Plant them tomorrow. So here is a question. Do I put them in with little labels to show what they are? This is meant to be a display garden after all. Or do I make a plan and put that on display so visitors can find out what the plants are?
If you were visiting which would you prefer? TIA.
Eric

Eric, if I was visiting your garden, could I easily get up close to the plants to read the labels? If not, then I'd prefer to have a plan to refer to.

I would go for the plan given your cat and his label eating habit. 

personally, if i were to visit i would prefer not to have each plant with it's individual label sticking out, but a plan or diagram instead. then i could look at the whole picture your plants create rather than seeing all those labels.
but then sticking up labels in flowerbeds are one of those things that makes me grate my teeth! ;)

Kerry, don't come down my way you would not have any teeth left to grate. I label all my plants and I also have a plan. I like to grow as many varieties of plants as possible and because most of them are perenials I split them up when they are too big and sell the excess. So proper labels are needed so  the buyer gets excactly what they want. The planting plan is so I can go straight to the plant in stead of wondering 'now where did I plant that'

Now, Hex, you should know the cats are strictly banned from the Alpine house and they would never ever dare to go in there, now would they?
I too need to know what the plants are for propagation purposes, though not for sale anymore, rather as a precaution against loss. BUT if you have the labels visible it does tend to look like a cemetery with all the little gravestones sticking up. AND people have this nasty habit of picking up the labels to read them and then putting them back in the wrong place. I will probably bury the label alongside and make a plan for visitors.
£60 does not go very far does it?

I had a rethink in the grass garden today, and as there are a lot of pepples and cobbles dotted around I painted the plant names on  cobbles and used them instead of the normal markers. Now it does not look like boot hill.

Nice idea, but what do you do if (and with us when) the plant dies? At least with a label, you can remove it, even here we would run out of cobbles and pebbles in the end!
Still I suppose the label eating cat would have trouble chewing a rock!

you turn it upside down  ;)

the cat?

I think even cats can chew upside down!