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Turn a Dead Tree into a Bottle Tree

If, like the rest of the world, I had a Pinterest account set up yet, this is what I’d pin:I walk by this bottle tree almost every day, so it’s been pinned in my mind since the day it went up about a month ago.  But where do you find an iron tree?  I’ve been waiting to see the owners to ask, and then last week, I saw a photo of blue glass bottles stuck on a real tree–but not on Pinterest, on Secrets of a Seed Scatterer–and it came to me…the Cassia tree!It was pronounced dead a few months ago, but to remove it requires pulling up lava rock and figuring out what to replace it with…so glad I didn’t bother.  Instead I snipped the twigs away and placed my bottles.It definitely needs more colors and more bottles, but it’s a nice start to a much-needed makeover.  Now who wants to drink some wine with me?