Bottle Trees

Now here’s something every Southern garden needs, and probably some Northern ones as well, although it’s more of a Southern, particularly a Mississippi, thing. Indeed, so Mississippi that a company there in Sunflower, a real town in the famous Delta, sells this unique African-American yard art in Bottle Tree kits on the Web, with welded "tree" stand and all the bottles you need, including the traditional cobalt blue. For roughly $100 you can start trapping evil spirits like the old Africans did. The rancho’s order is in.