I am wondering if any of you have bottle trees in your yard?
This one is manmade, but I have seen bottles put on live tree branches. I am thinking of doing that with one of our trees and wondered if anyone has suggestions that has one.
I have one. I used a bamboo stalk for mine and cut. then bent the branches to hold the bottles....this helps hold the heavier bottles as the branches bend easily. I'm trying some other ideas too, such as long nails on trunk with bottles placed closely together.
I have the blue bottles in my white burch.....looks awesome in the winter when the leaves are gone and in the spring/summer/fall the blue peeks thru the leaves.
@Lin R - You bought a "frame" to hold the bottles or what??? That's my dilema - lacking an appropriate tree stump, are there FAUX tree frames available somewhere? Who sells these?
Google it Susan S, there are many places you can order from but I had a local wielder make mine after I showed him photos of others. He did not put enough "branches" on it like was on my real tree.
Susan, you google bottle tree and find lots of them online. Ebay and etsy.com has them also. I bought mine at a place while visiting Texas that had them along with other yard art. I really love mine. I tried painting the inside of my bottles with paint from Martha Stewart and it did not work as she said it should. The paint would not adhere well to the entire bottle even though I used her primer. So still trying to figure out the bottle thing. Also plowandhearth.com has the bottle
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bushes and solar bottles. That would be cool to have to see at night, but the bottles are pretty pricey. Hope this helps.
Thanks Diane & Lin!! Well DUH - of course I can google it. Geez, I am the Queen of Google (at my house lol). We have a Plow & Hearth too - so will check them out.
Diane - when you had your "real tree" - what sort of "stake" did you drive into the tree to support of bottles - and I assume that doesn't harm the tree? BTW - did you kinow there is also paint out now (Krylon maybe) that is a spray you can use on glass?? Hey, I know - you can Google it!! LOL ;~)
the tree was already dying so I knew I could not hurt it anymore...I drilled holes about 6 " deep & hammered concrete re-bar in it. I cut the re-bar different lengths to match the depth of my bottles. I have a friend that had a pine tree die in his yard & he used it...it is about 20 feet tall with lots & lots of branches that he cut off the length he wanted...I bet he has over 100 bottles on it...it is so cool...will try to get photo of it.
I tried painting the inside of my bottles and it did not turn out great. It took forever to dry. But I do love my tree. My friend that is a bartender saved me bottles and I have some really pretty blue ones from some kind of vodka and they look so nice. Since it is winter and all our trees have no leaves, the bottle tree is something that stands out.
You can use alot of things to make bottle trees. I am from the deep south and we love to make them. This picture was made during a freak snow storm. We don't get them often.
@Lin R - You bought a "frame" to hold the bottles or what??? That's my dilema - lacking an appropriate tree stump, are there FAUX tree frames available somewhere? Who sells these?
Diane - when you had your "real tree" - what sort of "stake" did you drive into the tree to support of bottles - and I assume that doesn't harm the tree? BTW - did you kinow there is also paint out now (Krylon maybe) that is a spray you can use on glass?? Hey, I know - you can Google it!! LOL ;~)