crawgarden said:Leon, are your original labels P Touch with UV resistance?
Polymerous said:I briefly had a fling with those impressionable copper labels (on stakes), but as Sherry commented, they quickly oxidize and you can't read them unless you are right on top of them - and even then it can be problematic! (Also, the copper "label", which is really just a strip of copper bent around the posts, can and will fall off in the garden (thanks to critters or blundering humans).)..................The garden marker writing does eventually start to fade, but one advantage of the Wren labels (over other types of "long term" garden labels) is that (as Sherry noted) one can always write in long-lasting pencil (on the reverse side of the label). It is not really readable in the garden, BUT the duplicate pencil writing on the reverse side ensures that the plant identity is not lost if the gardener is too slow/lax to update the label.
irisarian said:We use the Brothers P-touch but get the metal markers from different sources. When I use temporary plastic labels I find that a graphite pencil lasts the longest. Occasionally a tape label will peel off from the stake.