Plant Labels

I am using a method described by a GoYer a few years ago. Use a suitable sized pebble, piece of slate or whatever and write on it with a fine-point CD pen. Then seal the face with a waterproof varnish.

i don't buy labels anymore, I have bought them by the thousands in the past and used to get really cross when the following year, I would pull one out to read it and it would disintergrate. I now use second hand venetion blinds, I know it takes a while to snip them to the required length, but they don't snap, and if you face the writing away from the sun, ordinary pencil won't fade. Funny enough I couldn't get hold of any blinds locally, so have just bought a couple of second hands one from the shop on the ether. Both 99p but the post was more, even so i have saved pounds on a box of 1000 labels. I have also painted names on pebbles using masonry paint, but that takes too long for all the labels i do. But i do have them dotted around the garden under clems, shrubs and a few perennials.

Many thanks for the suggestions. The pebble idea sounds nice for plants and flowers-if I could be bothered with the varnish.....
The Venetian blind sounds a cracking idea--wish we hadn't taken all the old ones to the tip when we moved in here! Maybe I'll go back an see if anyone has thrown any away.