I plan on using the new metal markers for daylilies, roses, ferns and hostas, the rest will probably remain used blinds. Maps are helpful in some situations, but like today when the armadillo dug up the plants and the labels,(they were just purchased seedlings)but I had hoped to track their progress with a number assigned to each of them. Now how do you match a dug up plant with a tossed around label? I just did the best I could at guessing what went where. I don't have a smartphone myself, but I do try to keep diagrams and lists and all sorts of notes out in the garden shed.
No, not after two weeks or two months could I remember the order of anything! I only have three types of tomatoes planted and I find myself looking at the labels.