A relaxing drive in the South might take you past bare trees adorned with colored bottles stuck on the ends of their branches. To the uninitiated, this yard ornamentation might seem like Southern ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Lonnie Blumenthal incorporates several different colors into the bottle tree in her backyard in Greensboro. “I have quite a bit of eclectic yard art,” Blumenthal said. “I like the bottle tree because ...

Most people would recycle them, toss them in the garbage or sell them in an antique store, but Elmer Long created a roadside attraction when he began making art sculptures with the thousands of glass ...

To see the forest for the trees, drive north from Victorville on old Route 66 into the desert, past the cement factory where Elmer Long toiled for decades, to a grove of metal and glass that is more ...

AKRON, Ohio - Deidre Betancourt is used to getting puzzled looks and wisecracks about the tree sprouting from her yard. It's not a living plant, but a bottle tree - a tree-shaped metal frame with wine ...

People in the Bay Area have remarkable things in their front yards: baroquely pruned trees, topiary squirrels and kangaroos, sheet-metal dinosaurs. Bottle trees are rare, though. We knew they had to ...

LOS ANGELES — To see the forest for the trees, drive north from Victorville, Calif., on old Route 66 into the desert, past the cement factory where Elmer Long toiled for decades, to a grove of metal ...

I thought I would talk about bottle trees. The reason for that? I get so many questions about them from readers. I get more questions from confused readers about this tree than any other landscape ...

Deidre Betancourt is used to getting puzzled looks and wisecracks about the tree sprouting from her yard. It's a bottle tree — a tree-shaped metal frame with wine bottles stuck on the ends of the ...