Pity the poor pixie tag. The tiny plastic insert served for years as the sole means of identifying plants at garden centers and educating consumers about the plant's needs. Impossible to read with ...

While you may not love the look of plastic plant tags sticking up in your garden, I don't really mind them so much. In winter they're a reminder of what's to come in the spring and summer ...

And when a plant slips away to that Eden in the sky, we have the label to remind us of its beauty. Shrubs and trees arrive from the nursery with temporary plastic or paper labels.

Those colorful plastic bread tags are beneficial for way more than just preserving your loaf. Discover how to repurpose the tiny items around your home.

Smashed Plastic, on the other hand, had only begun pressing records a year earlier, using just one elephant-sized pressing machine to mint vinyl for local musicians and labels.

You can recycle the plastic stakes that lawn-maintenance companies leave in customers’ yards by turning them into simple, DIY plant labels.

Household supplies and would-be trash can be upcycled into garden labels. Venetian blinds slats, plastic knives, popsicle sticks or tin cans can make easy, recycled plant markers.

We are seeing some promising advances in plant-based plastics. Coca Cola's latest moves in the area bring its first ever bottle made from 100 percent plant-based plastic to the table, produced ...

Copper labels are better-looking than zinc and develop a nice patina in the garden. Gardeners can simply engrave the plant names in the soft copper with a ballpoint pen.

SERIES 27 Episode 13 Rather than using plastic tags to remind yourself of what you've planted where, why not use something more aesthetically pleasing and less likely to be chewed by a playful pet?

Made in Michigan: MasterTag nursery plant tags MasterTag's horticulture labels are found at garden centers around the U.S. and Canada. The company employs 140 workers at three Montague facilities.