Easy, Cheap Garden Tags From Disposable Spoons

Step 5 The Advanced Garden Tag

The "advanced" garden tag is unique in that it eliminated the need of writing the genus of the plant on it by using a color-code system. I have found this very helpful for many of my plants, and especially my cacti, as instead of having to poke myself every time I pick up a tag to see the genus of the species (yes, I know this is part of the hobby, but when you're going through a bunch of Opuntia, it's redundant), I merely have to scan my eyes over the tags, and look for certain colors. To begin the construction of this tag, take an unlabeled tag from the basic method, and choose a thumbtack of a color you wish to use to represent the genus of the plant your tag will be for (for example, in this case, I used a blue thumbtack to represent Cereus, a genus of cacti).