Anyone who knows me at all knows I love glass in the garden — colorful reflective “gazing” balls, flower beds lined with up-ended beer bottles, a cactus and succulent collection mulched with smooth ...

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 ...

The seed for a bottle tree orchard at the Mississippi Museum of Art sprouted a year ago, inside the ex-pat gallery of "The Mississippi Story," in front of a real live work of art. Horticulturist and ...

The decorative "trees" - with colored-glass bottles for "branches" - are a tradition in the rural South and the Caribbean. Now they're becoming a popular garden ornament in other climes, as well as ...

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 ...

Fixtures of rural southern yards and Caribbean island communities, manufactured versions of the trees are now popping up all over. (More: Bottle Trees Join Grand Tradition of Pink Flamingos, 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 ...