I thought it sounded kind of crazy when my Phillipston friend Karen Perkins told me she was making a bottle tree in her yard. Karen is a horticulturalist, a well-known specialist for raising epimedium ...

I thought I would talk about bottle trees. The reason for that? I get so many questions about them from readers. I get more questions from confused readers about this tree than any other landscape ...

The infrastructure of a bottle tree usually consists of two things - a "tree" and a collection of glass bottles. Present-day bottle trees often consist of a metal "tree" structure made of rebar or ...

Looking for a holiday gift for the gardener who has everything? How about a bottle tree? The decorative "trees" - with colored glass bottles for "branches" - are a tradition in the rural South and the ...

One of my favorite gardening traditions is the bottle tree. Whether they are actually trees or yard art made of wood and dowels or metal rebar, the sight of colored bottles catching sun in the garden ...

There are evergreens in Jerry Payne’s forest. And everblues, too. They are shaped and colored vessels from all over. They have been carried, held and poured. This is their final resting place. Some ...

Most people would recycle them, toss them in the garbage or sell them in an antique store, but Elmer Long created a roadside attraction when he began making art sculptures with the thousands of glass ...

Most people would recycle them, toss them in the garbage or sell them in an antique store, but Elmer Long created a roadside attraction when he began making art sculptures with the thousands of glass ...