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. She kneels to adjust a perfume bottle ...

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 ...

Bottle trees are rare, though. We knew they had to be out there somewhere and, sure enough, ... Wood posts with large nails or rebar rods can stand in for trees.

I got a dozen of ’em, no two alike, ranging from homemade cedar tree trunks festooned with wine bottles to inexpensive 4- and 7-foot rebar trees provided by Mississippi Prison Industries to ...

Present-day bottle trees often consist of a metal "tree" structure made of rebar or steel. ... The bottle tree was brought to the Americas during the slave trade in the 1700s.

Bottle tree sculpture is what we’re talking about today. ... Decorative bottles (5) 1/2″ rebar, 36″ long; 16- or 18-gauge copper wire; Assorted large glass or acrylic beads; ...