Storing Garden Flags
One of the first things I did when I got a garden was to get one of the little flag hangers. Over the years, I have accumulated a number of flags as well. There’s one for each month, plus some sports team flags.
Since the flags spend a lot of time outdoors, and my experience in washing them has led to the destruction of several flags, I don’t want to store these items in my house. But out in the garage we have no drawers to keep them in, and throwing them on a shelf just led to a mess.
I was doing laundry one day and found the perfect solution for the garden flag storage: skirt hangers. These hangers, specifically designed for skirts, have a single horizontal piece that has two clips attached. They are the perfect width for garden flags.
I keep three hangers in the garage: one for January through June, one for July through December, and one for the sports flags. I keep the sports flags separate so that my husband can put out his favorite without getting the rest out of order. Six flags is a comfortable amount for the clips to hold without losing grip on the bunch.
I hang the hangers from a bracket that suspends my husband’s bike, but a simple nail would do as well.
Photo by World Resources Institute Staff
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I have been doing this for years but I keep mine in the front hall closet near our front door. I have found that if I keep the original plastic cover the flags are purchased in, I can easily keep @6 flags in each. Then hang them up with the Skirt hanger. This keeps dust and dirt off of them. I have them sorted by Holiday and month. I find hand washing the flags with just a couple of drops of Woolite works best. Then hang to dry in my bathtub on a skirt hanger rather than in direct sunlight. My flags last for years this way.
Another trick for keeping your large garden flags is to roll them up in left over wrapping paper tubes, label them, and keep them in a plastic wrapping paper storage container.