Bottles in the landscape

When I drove by this hellstrip I had to stop and snap a photo.

It's definitely an inexpensive and colorful "hardscape" treatment. Well, if you don't count the price of the wine, or water, or booze, or whatever it is that was purchased in those bottles.

Seeing it got me thinking back to Bella Madrona and the first time I saw bottles used as hardscape...

Then my mind really got traveling and I started remembering other bottle uses I've seen. Like these next to Garden Fever, topping a retaining wall...

...and acting as mini-terrariums.

There were all sorts of bottles in Karen Schwartz's garden...

And I can't forget the bottles I saw last December at Raul Zumba's garden in the Bay Area.

All these bottle thoughts had me wondering if I shouldn't try and come up with something creative to do with the mountain of wine bottles we go through. I have donated a few to Alison, who is up to creative things in her garden, like this...


But thus far all I do is take our bottles to the curb each week.

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