Last week someone left 5 large green bottles behind the recycling bins. They are the type of green bottles that in the 60s and 70s people used to make “bottle gardens”. Even Pam Roscoe admitted to having done it in her time. And apparently the fashion is making a come back – at least according to the gardening page of the Telegraph. A new book by Tovah Martin shows what can be done in “terrariums. Obviously from the picture it can be seen that they the new “terrariums” are more elegant than a large green bottle.
However, I have opted to leave my green bottle empty and to set it at the bottom of a set of steps I recently made. These new steps make coming down from the terrace slightly easier and the bottle helps cover a drain.