Allsop Home and Garden Plant Tag, Herb Series, 1-Count

by Allsop

• 6-Pk gift set
• Artist designed prints
• 6 themed tags
• 6 steel planting stakes
• UV treated

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2 x 2 x 8 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B004D2ANWG
• Item model number: 30096
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,180 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)
  • #12 in Patio, Lawn & Garden > Gardening > Plant Container Accessories > Racks

Product Description

Brighten your surroundings with an Allsop Home and Garden Plant Tag, Herb Series. Label your favorite herb, plant or flower with plant tags. Soft white rubber tags are durable and UV treated for year round use outdoors. Offered in two different series of pad printed artist designed exclusive drawings. The Herb Series comes in a two-toned green set and the Botanical Series is a multi-hued set. Packaged as a gift set of six, this is an ideal item for your favorite gardener. One package includes six tags, six silver steel planting stakes and reusable gift box package.  In addition to these garden tools check out our array of outdoor solar lighting. Allsop is the founder of the concept "solar garden art". Allsop Home & Garden is known for unique combinations of green solar technology, efficient LED lighting, artisan Hand-blown glass and use of other creative materials with solar power. Allsop Home & Garden is a small family business, started by a father and a daughter who were inspired to create a better wheel barrow. With this in mind, our mission is to create innovative and meaningful products that are as important to you as they are to us. Now, nine years later we are still inspired to create the best, the most innovative and conscientious products possible from original garden tools to solar lighting. Allsop. Illuminate your life.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Functionality with Caveats November 26, 2011

By Lisa Shea HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Amazon Verified Purchase

Plant tags are immensely useful items. When plants are just growing, you know what seeds you put in that spot. When they're fully grown, you can keep track of similarly shaped plants and herbs. When plants are dormant, you know where they will come up next year.

Allsop has two different styles of plant tags available. One has herb images on them, and the other has floral images on them.

So how well do these work?

First, a comment on the packaging. The packaging these tags come with is INCREDIBLY wasteful. Talk about non-planet-friendly! They should simply pack these in a blister pack so that the plastic and cardboard can be recycled. Instead it's in a convoluted container that probably cost more than the tags themselves (and of course we pay for that container cost in the total price). Points removed for the packaging.

The tags look pretty and white when they come out of the box. They are a bit hard to "thread" onto the metal curled hook, but with a bit of bending and effort they do of course get into their proper spaces. Then comes the writing part.

You must use the pens THEY RECOMMEND for this to work well. If you use a typical wet-erase marker it will of course dissolve after the first rain storm! What they recommend you use is NOT a wet erase marker. It's a specific kind of marker that needs to be RUBBED to be removed. I ordered those markers and found that they worked just as indicated. They lasted all season through rainstorms and even a hurricane without washing off. They did remove when I needed to remove the ink, by rubbing with a paper towel. So they worked as indicated.

On the down side, the pretty white color of the tag turned to a rather icky yellow after being outside just for a few months. So if your aim was to have that white color, you're not in luck. If all you really cared about was having a functional tag, then the tag is certainly functional and quite visible at the end of a season.

In the above image set is an image showing how my "mosquito plant" tag looked like at the end of the year.

I'm very pleased with the functionality of the tag. We had three kinds of basil and they looked almost identical but had different flavors. It was great to be able to scan the tags and know which one to get. We had them in hanging containers and would move them around to get the best sunlight, so otherwise it would have been hard to keep track of which was which. Also, we have plants which go dormant. By having the tags in the pots, it's easy to know what will grow again and how to store it and care for it.

Well recommended with the caveats mentioned above.

I purchased my plant tags with my own funds.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Turned a gross yellow-brown very quickly. March 2, 2012

By Valerie DeBill

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought these in May 2011 and within six months they had turned the color in my customer photo above. I am really disappointed that something intended for outdoor use in, presumably, full sun, would photodegrade so quickly. On the plus side, the stakes are still in great shape and look great, so I'm going to make new tags out of something that will hold up better and keep using the stakes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty but need to use a sharpie, not gel pens! August 6, 2011

By Gen of North Coast Gardening TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

The instructions with these cute little plant tags says to use a gel pen to label these, so that you may rub the writing off and re-label for future seasons. However, the gel pens I used (three different brands) all washed off the first time I watered my plants with a sprinkler. A regular sharpie permanent marker (not the fine point) worked great, though.

Overall these are very cute little plant tags for herb gardens. I was particularly excited to use them for a client (I'm a landscaper) who kept forgetting to use her herbs because she'd forget which was which and lose confidence. These tags were a stylish way of allowing her to feel sure she was choosing the right herb for the dish she was making.

The rubbery texture and adorable printing make these tags a winner, and they'd make an adorable gift. I'd only use them in small spaces where you only need a few tags, though, because man - buying set after set of these would quickly become expensive.