Blue bottle tree

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.

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

Kurt and I have a lot of hobbies. (Probably too many, since we start far more projects than we finish.) Kurt’s hobbies are things like metalworking, woodworking and stained glass. Mine are ge…

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What, exactly, is the significance of the blue-bottle tree?: According to several sources, the trees are used to keep evil spirits --"haints" or "wooly boogers," for example -- out of one's home. They even are effective on a particularly nasty goblin known as a "plat eye" -- in Gullah culture, the evil spirit of someone improperly buried, according to the Web site Moonlitroad.com.

Great ideas to re-purpose your used wine bottles as garden art, edging, tiki torches, and more! We'll show you how!

Not one of these trees is real. The trunks and branches are made of brass, steel, or concrete and steel. Trees over 8 feet tall have automatic, programmable watering systems built inside the trunks. Specially designed bolt-on adapters allow for a change in appearance from year to year, or even season to season. […]

Encounter a tradition kept alive through our Gullah friends. Blue bottle trees are placed in yards, but their roots date back deeply into African culture.