cobalt blue became the favored color, and the milk of magnesia bottles were most popular. Today, they're considered to be the crème de la crème of flea market finds for a bottle tree.

gazing globes and the bottle tree idea that was brought to America by African slaves. Often the bottles were blue because of the color's association with water, which was thought to repel spirits ...

The bottle tree has deep roots in Africa ... a line of bare crape-myrtle trees with every branch of them ending in a colored bottle, green or blue." Welty's character Livvie "was familiar from ...

BLUFFTON, S.C. (WTOC) - The Bluffton Gullah Heritage Center installed a bottle tree base Thursday, standing 15 ft tall and a width to include 75 limbs, making it the largest bottle tree ever ...