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 ...

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 ...

Looking for a 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 ...

AKRON, Ohio - Deidre Betancourt is used to getting puzzled looks and wisecracks about the tree sprouting from her yard. It's not a living plant, but a bottle tree - a tree-shaped metal frame with wine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. It's common knowledge that booze and Christmas go together like turkey and ...

People in the Bay Area have remarkable things in their front yards: baroquely pruned trees, topiary squirrels and kangaroos, sheet-metal dinosaurs. Bottle trees are rare, though. We knew they had to ...

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 ...

Deidre Betancourt is used to getting puzzled looks and wisecracks about the tree sprouting from her yard. It's a bottle tree — a tree-shaped metal frame with wine bottles stuck on the ends of the ...