Top Five Serendipity Gardens Stories
The Serendipity Gardens blog is one year old. To mark its anniversary, we are republishing the top five posts. Here they are:
My Bottle Tree “Blooms” Year Round
Bottle trees, often seen in the South, have a complicated history.
According to Felder Rushing, in his book Bottle Trees, “Clear glass was invented in Alexandria, Egypt around 100 A.D. Soon around then, tales began to circulate that spirits could live in bottles – probably from when people heard sounds caused by wind blowing over bottle openings. This led to the belief in ‘bottle imps’ and genies that could be captured in bottles … Somewhere in there, people started using glass to capture or repel bad spirits. The idea was, roaming night spirits would be lured into and trapped in bottles placed around entryways, and morning light would destroy them.”