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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 36-foot glass pine tree will grow this month in Wisconsin with the help of participants who will string melted recycled glass into a sparkling structure. “The goal is, create an environment where ...

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 ...

Dubbed the "World's Tallest Glass Tree," a winter attraction is back on display in a popular lake town 90 miles from Chicago. The winter art installation is constructed using 3,000 pounds of recycled ...

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 ...

ike the dream catcher and the God’s eye, the bottle tree is one of those folk expressions that have found traction in the broader culture. This African-American tradition involves sticking colored ...