Bottle trees

Spruce up your garden with this blue bottle tree garden bottle art. The blue bottle tree is such a statement and easy to make!

Yep, that's a 10 foot tall tree made out of different diameters of steel round rod complete with colored bottles my mom collected from friends and a few she pur…

Curious about bottle trees? Love the colored glass bottles and intricate metal branches? Learn more abut my mom's diy bottle brush tree...

Over the centuries, the Gullah culture has lent many legends to the rest of the Lowcountry and beyond, and the belief in evil spirits is one of them.

If you have unused glass bottles around your kitchen or garage, these 19 Easy Handmade Glass Bottle ideas are excellent additions to the garden for sure!

This Saturday from 9-4, the Travis County Master Gardeners, are sponsoring their annual Inside Austin Garden Tour. As always, they have a great garden tour in store […]

About seven years ago my beautiful curly willow tree decided she had enough of the Texas sun and gave up the fight. I loved her so much, I could not cut her dow…

This is in the arboretum. I learned some history about the blue bottle tree: Enslaved African- Americans brought these traditions over with them from Africa. Blue was an especially potent spirit repellent and the bright colors of the bottle trees were used to attract evil or ancestral spirits and keep them away from the home. It is interesting that the ancestral spirits were just as feared as the overtly evil ones. This was because of the deep-seated idea, by no means limited to people on…

If you ever drive through rural areas of the United States, you may see bottle trees. More than yard art, they actually have a magical purpose.

A bottle tree is a type of recycled glass sculpture that is popular with gardeners. Its origins lay in Egypt, where bottles were used to capture spirits. African slaves also made versions of these sculptures. To make your own bottle tree,...