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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I love this form of old-school, Southern garden art that glistens in the sun and howls in the wind. Bottle trees are also great ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid all the brightly blooming plants at the Arboretum State Botanical Garden of Kentucky this spring, one of the hottest attractions is a tree that isn't even alive. Staffers put up a new "bottle ...

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 ...