Desert & Succulent Plant Markers
Engraved plant markers for desert gardens, cactus beds and succulent collections — aluminum and UV-stable acrylic built for low-desert sun, reflected heat and gravel mulch.
I garden in Phoenix, so this is the category I test everything against. Low-desert sun takes apart a printed nursery tag in a single season, and reflected heat off a block wall or a gravel bed is harder on a label than anything a temperate garden will do to it. Engraved aluminum has no coating to lift and nothing to fade.
Two things about desert plantings that change which marker to reach for. Gravel and decomposed granite go down several inches, so a short stake sinks out of sight within a year — the extra-long commercial aluminum stake is there for exactly that. And agaves and named cactus cultivars look almost identical while they are small, which is when you most need the label: 'Blue Glow' and 'Blue Flame' are not going to tell you apart from a foot away.
Worth engraving on a desert marker: the cultivar, and the year it went in. Most agaves flower once and then die, often leaving pups behind, so the planted date is the difference between being surprised and being ready.
For potted succulent collections, the five-pack is the sensible starting point — most collectors have more pots than they have patience for labeling them one at a time.
Engraved rather than printed, made one at a time in Phoenix, Arizona.
