I thought it sounded kind of crazy when my Phillipston friend Karen Perkins told me she was making a bottle tree in her yard. Karen is a horticulturalist, a well-known specialist for raising epimedium ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A relaxing drive in the South might take you past bare trees adorned with colored bottles stuck on the ends of their branches. To the uninitiated, this yard ornamentation might seem like Southern ...

Most people would recycle them, toss them in the garbage or sell them in an antique store, but Elmer Long created a roadside attraction when he began making art sculptures with the thousands of glass ...

There are evergreens in Jerry Payne’s forest. And everblues, too. They are shaped and colored vessels from all over. They have been carried, held and poured. This is their final resting place. Some ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - "What is that?" is one thing you hear a lot at the Flower Show, and this year that question is often directed at one particular kind of tree that is quite amazing to see. Native ...

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 ...

Most people would recycle them, toss them in the garbage or sell them in an antique store, but Elmer Long created a roadside attraction when he began making art sculptures with the thousands of glass ...