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Here\'s mine.

I need more blue bottles!!

Very nice rue!!! I see those once in awhile in peoples yards....Are those blue ones some kind of wine bottles???

Thanks!

Yes, I'm not sure what kind of wine. They all hade paper labels on them. At Sams I have seen a few different types of blue bottles, but they are printed right on the glass.

I strung the tree with lights hoping that they wou;ld glow with a beautiful blue at night. They didn't!! I think I will need mor lights tucked in them or a spotight shining up through then to heave the effect I really want.

Okay, first of all I apologize..I really do! But I have never seen a "Blue Bottle tree". Will you explain it to me?

I have one at my shop mainly because I love the blue bottles, when the sun shines through them they are beautiful. And I wanted something to catch peoples attention and be a conversation starter.

At home I have 5 blue bottles just stuck down in the ground of my mostly blue flowers garden. I like garden art but try to keep it at a minimum at home. I once read something about keeping garden art to a minimum (less is more) so it is more of a surprise to people as they walk through your garden.

In the old days people used bottles trees to catch evil spirits before they entered the houe.

Oh okay..so it's garden art. I just wasn't sure. I thought maybe I was the only one not familiar with the blue bottle tree. It definitely is a conversation starter. If you get the lights working or the spotlight, be sure to get a pic, I'd love to see it!!
Christina

Christina..I have seen them also with green bottles only and also mixed colors on them...some farmers just need a place to put bottles they pick up and hang them from tree branches around here, I have seen them on fence posts also.

Mississippi Department of Archives and History
This photograph by Welty, of a home in Simpson County, reflects a folk belief that "bottle-trees" � trees on whose limbs bottles have been placed � will trap evil spirits that might try to get in the house. Welty used bottle trees in her short story "Livvie," which was set near the Old Natchez Trace, a famous colonial "road" used by Indians, merchants, soldiers, and outlaws between Natchez and Nashville, Tennessee. This photograph, like many others taken by Welty during her work for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, appears in One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996).

Here's a link to where this came from and a black and white photo: Bottle Tree
Here's another site with alot of bottle tree pictures: More bottle tree photos