Several years ago I had the pleasure of visiting Kanapaha Botanical Gardens in Gainesville, Florida.  It’s a beautiful botanical garden with a mile and a half walk through various gorgeous exhibits, but the thing that caught my eye, the one thing I could not get out of my mind, was a bottle tree.  The bottle tree was made out of the large stump of a tree that had long ago died.  The bottles were mounted on pieces of rebar that had been placed into holes drilled into the old stump. Continue reading →