Adorable DIY Garden Marker Ideas

They're almost cuter than your just-sprouted tomatoes. Almost.

Special Spoons
A handful of thrift-store spoons (or a bunch from your silverware drawer if you just can't wait) become playful, hand-drawn labels. Don't worry about your artistic ability. Simplistic = super cute.

Smooth Stones

Printed out her plants' names in pretty fonts to help guide her in marking stones with paint pens.

Friendly Faces

These whittled twigs are a double-dose of garden cuteness: They're labels

Metal Spoons.

Whilst this takes a little more skill and you need a letter stamp kit, these stamped spoon plant markers are garden art in themselves! They are made using letter stamps.

Decoupage a pot.

Use paper, contact adhesive, magazine pictures or even the image from your seed packet.

Terracotta/Clay Pots and China.

Sometimes pots and crockery break. Don’t despair! It may be an opportunity in disguise. I’m often upcycling broken pots in creative ways for my garden. Add a label to the broken shards or whole plates/pots. Here are some creative ways to use them.

Glass Jar + Seed Packet.

I save seeds from my garden. However, there’s nothing worse than having an incredibly high yielding food crop but not remembering where you sourced the seed or which variety it was! Here’s a neat solution.

Corflute.

This is the material real estate signs are made from. After use, the signs can be recycled into weatherproof plant markers. These are some I made with the kids at school.

Ceramic Tile.

Use up old tiles to make weatherproof markers. Most tiling shops have a throw away bin with odds and ends. These can be painted or stencilled with plant names and pictures.

Plastic Plant Labels.

Recycle whatever materials you have access to. Milk and juice bottles or just about any plastic container with straight sides can be cut and used for labels. You can also use ice cream lids or even old plastic picnic cutlery. Just poke in the soil.