Horticultural Identification Products · Est. Greensboro, NC
More Than a
Plant Tag.
Horticultural identification, packaging, and retail solutions built around your plants, your brand, and the way you grow.
Who we are
Built for Horticulture.
For more than 25 years, HIP has worked with professional growers, nurseries, plant brands, and horticultural businesses — from independent family operations to major multi-state growers.
We understand the environments these products must actually perform in: production, shipping, merchandising, retail, weather, watering, and consumer handling. That understanding shapes every tag, wrap, and display we make.
What we do
Solutions for the Way You Grow
Products matter, but solutions come first. We start by understanding the problem, then build the identification, packaging, or presentation that fits your operation.
Plant Identification
Stake tags, hang tags, pressure-sensitive labels, and custom identification products that survive production, shipping, and retail.
Pot & Packaging Solutions
Pot wraps, branded packaging, and custom presentation solutions that finish plants professionally on the bench and the shelf.
Retail & POP
Point-of-purchase signage, merchandising, and retail presentation materials that help plants sell at the shelf.
Sustainable Solutions
BioTAG®, MilkMade™, Bamboo Stix, and environmentally responsible alternatives — each with its own specific environmental story.
Display Systems & Supplies
HIPStix, thermal ribbons, display products, and the related production supplies that keep your line running.
Custom Solutions
Unique horticultural identification, packaging, or merchandising challenges that need something beyond a standard product.
HIP Innovation
Meet BioTAG®
BioTAG was developed over several years as a plant tag designed to perform through production and retail — and then biodegrade after entering the soil.
- A truly biodegradable tag, exclusively available from HIP Labels
- After disintegration, biodegradation takes place in soil
- Tested according to ASTM D5988 test methods
The difference
Why Growers Choose HIP
We're not a generic print shop. Growers work with HIP because we know horticulture and solve problems — not just take orders.
We Know Horticulture
More than 25 years focused on the needs of growers and the horticultural industry. We understand the environments these products must actually perform in — production, shipping, retail, weather, watering, and consumer handling.
We Build Around Your Operation
Solutions should fit the customer's production, distribution, branding, and retail requirements — not the other way around. We work with independent family operations and major multi-state growers alike.
We Solve Problems
HIP has a history of developing products and approaches when standard solutions are not enough. We listen to the problem and develop identification, packaging, or display solutions built around the crop and the grower.
Production Meets Presentation
Products must perform in real growing environments while presenting plants professionally at retail. We design for both sides of that journey at once.
Personal Service
Customers work with knowledgeable people who understand the industry and their business. The same is true for a small family nursery and a large multi-state operation.
It's Hip to Be Labeled.
Personal service. Practical ideas. Products built for horticulture.
Consultative partner
When a Standard Solution Isn't Enough
HIP has a history of developing products and approaches when standard solutions aren't enough. Here's how that works in practice.
Your challenge
Your plant tags need to survive overhead watering, sun, and shipping without fading, tearing, or becoming illegible before reaching the consumer.
How HIP can help
HIP evaluates your production methods, container types, and handling conditions to select or develop the appropriate substrate, ink, and attachment format.
Your challenge
Standard grower containers look uniform on the retail bench, and repotting for retail presentation adds prohibitive labor and container expense.
How HIP can help
HIP develops custom pot wraps sized to your specific pots and flats, turning standard production containers into branded, shoppable retail presentations.
Your challenge
Your plant varieties or retail partners require coordinated branding across bench signage, container wraps, and individual plant identification.
How HIP can help
HIP coordinates your tags, wraps, and POP signage into a unified presentation system engineered to perform in retail garden center environments.
Better options
Better Options for Plants, Growers & the Planet
Recycled, recyclable, and biodegradable are not the same thing. We explain the specific environmental story of each material — accurately, without inflated claims.
BioTAG®
A truly biodegradable tag that performs through production and retail, then biodegrades after entering the soil. Tested according to ASTM D5988 test methods.
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MilkMade™
Contains post-consumer recycled milk jugs and is available for stake tags and hang tags. Identified as Category 2 recyclable (recycling acceptance depends on local programs).
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Bamboo Stix
Natural bamboo sticks used to attach and display hole-punched horticultural tags, with an easy-to-use attachment system and rounded silhouette.
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The product range
Identification, Packaging, Presentation.
Stake Tags
Identification that travels with the plant.
Hang Tags
A finished, retail-ready presentation.
Pot Wraps
Finish the pot, present the plant.
Pressure-Sensitive Labels
Adhesive identification where you need it.
POP & Signage
Help plants sell at the shelf.
BioTAG®
A truly biodegradable tag. Exclusively from HIP.
Get started
Tell Us What You're Working On
Different needs, different starting points. Pick the path that fits — we keep the first step short.
Start with a conversation
Bring Us the Problem.
Whether you need a better plant tag, a custom packaging solution, a sustainable alternative, or something that hasn't been made yet, start with a conversation.