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 ...

The bottle tree is a piece of art that can occasionally be seen in the front yard of neighborhood homes. Usually a tall structure covered in an array of blue or multicolored glass bottles, the bottle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Afternoon sunlight reflects off cobalt blue bottles shaped like violins, cats and grape clusters on iron-rebar tree branches in Cindy Norwood’s back yard.