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 ...

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 ...

Afternoon sunlight reflects off cobalt blue bottles shaped like violins, cats and grape clusters on iron-rebar tree branches in Cindy Norwood’s back yard. She kneels to adjust a perfume bottle on a ...