We love cool glass bottles, but we've found that it's easy to exhaust uses for them, and significantly harder to throw pretty ones away! We saw this clever idea in The Oregonian, along with some other ideas for repurposing in the garden...
Other ideas included step ladders to hold potted plants; dress forms as topiaries; and gates as trellises.
• Garden ornaments in the The Oregonian
Image: The Oregonian
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Very cool. I happened to be working on a development project at an old glass factory and picked up several blue and purple bottles like these. I also got some boulder-sized glass lumps in green, blue, and clear. It's not enough to make a planting border, but this post is making me think the garden may be a better place for my small collection rather than a shelf in my dining room.
Pretty, but it's a broken glass accident waiting to happen...
This is very pretty. Makes me wish I had a walkway and a garden to decorate!
worried about broken glass? fill them first with plaster, concrete, dirt...
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Thats gorgeous. Great inspiration!
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would be even better if you could add lights inside!
I was thinking you could line clear bottles with any color paint you like and make them any color you'd like. Matching the house or trim color? Probably too matchy-matchy?
Perfect.....for breeding tens of thousands of mosquitoes in each one of those little rain-filled indentations.
How would these hold up in snow? Very pretty to look at though.
"How would these hold up in snow?"
Fine - Unless you hit it with a snowshovel...
We could totally do this except (a) I don't like the way it looks; (b) a glass bottle breaks even when filled with concrete; (c) wouldn't want to show off how many empties we can churn out around here.
Sorry, way too Sanford & Son.
Love it, though I'd probably want a slightly more orderly pattern than the one pictured above. I can understand why others might consider it hazardous because of snow or mosquito breeding, but luckily those are two rare occurances in Oregon (unless you get a weird winter, but the bugs at least are sprayed for yearly).
miabica, I thought the same thing right away too, mosquito paradise! Maybe if they were filled with something on top- mosaic glass, tile, etc, it wouldn't take much- they would be usable in more areas than just mosquito-free Oregon :)
How great would it be if these lit up?
I have the same thing in my garden. Possibly the same blue glass bottles (Trader Joe's fizzy water)...