During our travels in the south, I have seen and read about bottle trees, an old tradition started by slaves, to scare away evil spirits from gardens and homes. This has become a popular way of decorating in southern gardens using wine bottles. I have been saving bottles for a couple of years and even had friends donating colored wine and liquor bottles. I even hauled some empty red liquor bottles back from Cabo. (since red is so hard to find) I showed Fred a picture of one and he said no problem---he could make it for me. So many months later, we finally got it welded and in the ground. I also used leftover metal rods to do this arrangement in another part of the beds.
This is the one that he made---what a great job, Fred! I love looking at the colors with the sun on them and the other day when it rained, they were beautiful with droplets on them
If anyone is interested in seeing more or getting ideas on bottle trees, check out this website
felderrushing.net then look under hundreds of bottle trees---he photographs them all over
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