Monday, October 28, 2013

BOTTLE TREES

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Have you noticed Bottle Trees

in gardens and at garden centers?

Bottle Trees are often referred to as

"poor man's stained glass" or "garden earrings."

They are simply bottles on sticks.

They can be made of dead trees limbs tied together, wooden posts with large nails, welded metal rods, or bottles stuck on the tines of an upended pitch fork, or a small number of rebar rods stuck in the ground or fence posts.

This beautiful blue glass bottle glistens in the sunlight. It's perched on a rebar rod, at the top of a handmade twig-fence in the Heartland Harvest Garden at Powell Gardens, the botanical garden, east of Kansas City, Missouri.

Every year we throw out enough glass bottles and jars

to fill a giant skyscraper...

according to A Recycling Revolution.

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One glass wine bottle

                    takes 4,000 years or more to decompose -

                                                        longer if it sits in a landfill.

What happens to your wine and sparkling grape juice bottles that you haul to the recycling center?

Much of the glass goes into making more glass bottles.

The glass is broken up into smaller pieces called cullet,
and used to make more glass.

The beautiful, colorful, sturdy glass bottles make the perfect material for upcycled projects for your garden.

Upcycle:

To process of taking used goods or waste material

to produce something

that is often better than the original.

I'm

fascinated

with

bottle trees.