I thought my neighbor's bottle tree was tacky until I heard her reason for it

Gray Perez · 2026-09-30T03:10:04.697197+00:00

For two years I walked past the dead cedar in her yard that had about 30 blue glass bottles hanging off the branches and I figured it was just junk someone saw on a home show. Then she had a few of us over for coffee and mentioned her grandmother in Beaumont kept one to catch bad spirits, and the blue was supposed to mean peace for whoever lived there. I started looking into it and people have been doing this in the South for a long time, sometimes with 12 to 15 bottles and sometimes a whole tree full. Last weekend I found a bare branch off my old pear tree and wired up 9 bottles I got for a dollar each at the flea market. It looks a little silly from the street but I like knowing there is a story behind it. Does anyone here hang anything besides bottles, like old keys or tin cans, and how do you keep the wire from cutting into wet wood?

Guest Forum

Loading…

I thought my neighbor's bottle tree was tacky until I heard her reason for it | DIY Bizarre Garden Stuff - Guest Forum