Hank,
We actually have a pending wishlist item that will give you the option of including a work area suffix to whatever is placed within a given work area. This will make it a lot easier to adjust the viewport layers to show what is within your work areas. For now you can achieve this by:
1-Placing a work area
2-Labeling the plants within the work area
3-Select all labels and move them to a different layer
4-Repeat for all other work areas

This should allow you to control the given areas within the viewport much easier.

You might even want to check out our New Viewport tool as well.
https://www.landfx.com/index.php/docs/admin/drawing-setup/item/2165-make-viewport.html

Thanks Jake,
I look forward to the new tool. The leader lines work perfectly with the provided solution however only problem I'm running into is that all the call outs freeze regardless of what layer you move them to. I guess this is because all the call out blocks reference the same block files which were drafted on their own layer. My work around has been to block all the pertinent labels and paste into paper space.

Yeah that makes sense. I was initially having issues with that because the edge of the viewport would limit the extents of the plant callout but i started expanding the viewport when i was labeling and then shrinking the viewport when i was done. Hope that makes sense. Thanks

Which is exactly what our documentation shows:

https://www.landfx.com/index.php/docs/planting/customize-planting/plant-labels/item/216-labeling-plants.html#paper_space

--J

You are the man Jeremiah!