{"id":1176,"date":"2018-05-29T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2020-06-02T19:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:20:56","slug":"dont-be-that-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/dont-be-that-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t be \u201cthat\u201d guy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my commute to work I pass a recently landscaped site that has a lot of plants still sporting their plastic tags. I say &#8220;recent&#8221; but I really mean SEVERAL MONTHS. Seeing those tags flapping in the wind really detracted from a very nice landscape job!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/000_0952_683.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oak with tags\" width=\"683\" height=\"546\" title=\"000_0952_683\" data-id=\"1173\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/000_0952_683.jpg\" style=\"\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nursery growers and re-wholesalers put tags on plants for identification, not for decoration. I can see leaving the tag on for a few days on a residential job so the homeowner knows what was planted. But you probably gave them a landscape plan with everything identified on it, making those bright plastic tags unnecessary. On some commercial jobs I\u2019ve seen tags left on for years, until they weathered off. It&#8217;s not a good look.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/000_0957_683.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tags left on\" width=\"683\" height=\"578\" title=\"000_0957_683\" data-id=\"1172\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/000_0957_683.jpg\" style=\"\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not only does the tag look bad, it is unhealthy for the plant. Plastic tags can girdle branches on trees, and large portions of smaller shrubs. I have personally removed tags that have become embedded in the bark as the plant grew. It does take a few extra minutes, but having your crew take those tags off will make your install look as professional as it should. Have them do this as the parting site-cleanup as they remove scraps of burlap, lengths of tagging ribbon, and snarls of tying twine. You want your client &#8211; and all his friends and neighbors &#8211; to admire your work without distraction.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/000_0964_683.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tags left on\" width=\"683\" height=\"570\" title=\"000_0964_683\" data-id=\"1185\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/000_0964_683.jpg\" style=\"\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Krajniak\" width=\"600\" height=\"175\" title=\"krajniak\" data-id=\"3024\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/krajniak.png\" style=\"\" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"175\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"175\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my commute to work I pass a recently landscaped site that has a lot of plants still sporting their plastic tags. I say &#8220;recent&#8221; but I really mean SEVERAL MONTHS. Seeing those tags flapping in the wind really detracted from a very nice landscape job! Nursery growers and re-wholesalers put tags on plants for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,13,22,9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-87","category-business-tips","category-landscaping","category-plant-care","tag-david-krajniak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}