Old and New Yard Art--Recyling My Blues

    Blue is my favorite color and I have been collecting cobalt blue bottles for many years.  A number of years ago, I bought an interesting rhododendron trellis from a local artist.  It wasn't original to me, but I  placed it at the corner of the pond nearest the house and hung some of many of my blue bottles on it and called it Recycling my Blues.  Over the years, the trellis has fallen apart, but Bob keeps getting it put back together for me.       

    I learned at the beginning not to put my antique medicine bottles on the bottle tree because if I forget to empty the water after rainfall or snow in the winter, the bottles freeze and crack. 

    I had planned for several years to add a blue bottle post at the other end of the pond. Earlier this spring, I started that project. I have had the bottles to finish it for a while, but completing it required    some help from  Bob plus hammer and long nails that it took Bob a while to find. I talked him into helping me work on it late yesterday afternoon.  It isn't quite like I want it, but I will wait until next spring to rearrange it.

Comments

[Darla]

Oh Betsy, you probably know cobalt blue is my favorite color. I love what you've done with your blue bottles. I only have one really old one and I use it for a vase when I have a few long stemmed flowers. You make me wish I had a whole "bottle tree".

Darla

[Ardi]

Couldn't you cork the bottles and keep the water out? I love the look of it - very striking.

[Fran aka Redondowriter]

I think you know, Betsy, but I collect cobalt blue glass, too. I don't have enough great outdoors in my yard to display like you so effectively do, but how striking this is. I actually passed up a beautiful blue bottle last weekend at a rummage sale at church and I've been kicking myself.