Comptoir Botanique Square Slate Hanging Label

This plant label is handmade in Brittany using natural and authentic slate. It will add a touch of elegance to anything you plant. With a square shape, it has been perforated so you can insert onto a label hanger or thread through piece of twine. Decorative and practical, it'll help you to remember the name of each plant in the garden, greenhouse, raised beds, pots on the terrace, or the vegetable patch or herb garden, while.

Seed packets, as well as printed bands and labels provided when purchasing plants, often deteriorate quickly under the combined action of sunlight and rain, making the plant names quickly illegible. However, these slate labels from Comptoir Botanique withstand heat and the ravages of time. This square slate model measures 9.5cm (4in) on each side and comes in the form of a thin polished plate, more or less smooth and coloured in shades of gray-black, randomly streaked with lighter veins and spots. Before use, write the plant name, any information about it, or a message on it using a simple chalk, a chalk or chinagraph pen, a graphite pencil, or even white paint. Then pass a thread of string or twine through the provided hole and hang it on a branch of the plant in question, or place it directly onto a plant label hanger and insert it into the soil in front of the plant.

Natural slate is an ecological and environmentally friendly material, and its dust, chips and gravel are used in the production of soil amendments.

Made by Comptoir Botanique, located in Locquénolé in northern Finistère. It outsources more than 80% of its production to ESAT (Establishments and Services for Assistance through Work), a long-runnng collaboration.

Garden labels are very useful accessories that can also lend elegance and charm to your plants and garden. In the vegetable garden, it is essential to identify the sowings of lettuces, radishes or carrots, as well as the varieties of melons or squashes. In the ornamental garden, some perennials or bulbs disappear underground for a good part of the year and may be damaged by an unfortunate blow of a spade or fork if they have not been marked. Growers of irises or grasses will appreciate being able to remember the names of the beautiful varieties they've planted. An enthusiast of rare plants for which there is no common name can, thanks to the label that comes to the rescue, declare to visitors the Latin name of the latest acquisition. Finally, naming a plant is an excellent way to awaken the interest of children in nature, in all its diversity. Whether hung in the garden, in a pot, a flower box, or in a basket of plants and flowers, the slate label always adds a little something.