I'm convinced that no garden is complete without at least one piece of art. Whether it's homemade, re-purposed or commissioned, a thoughtfully placed piece of yard art can add a touch of organic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 not a living plant, but a bottle tree — a tree-shaped metal frame with wine bottles stuck ...

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

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 ...